Ram Dass

As soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. … As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

-Ram Dass 

Naipaul

> Women are sharp about sexual attraction, even when they themselves are not involved. All their senses are trained to detect the beginnings of interest and inclination, a man's loss of neutrality....

V.S. Naipaul

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JRW

John Wooden's Seven Point Creed was given to him by his father Joshua upon his graduation from grammar school: 

1. Be true to yourself.
2. Make each day your masterpiece.
3. Help others.
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

Roots of a lasting art

Roots of a lasting art according to Alejandra Pezarnik:

Pain

Late night perambulations

Poverty 

Pizarnik

I would like to live in order to write. Not to think of anything else other than to write. I am not after love nor money. I don't want to think nor decently build my life. I want peace: to read, to study, to earn some money so that I become independent from my family, and to write.

Alejandra Pizarnik

Hesse

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

- Herman Hesse

Frugal

I don't mind for people being frugal. But when they're cheap at my expense, then I have a problem.

- Tori Chester

Idea for book

Design intelligence


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Questions

We would like to know where this thing is going

Eames

The role of a designer is a good, thoughtful host, anticipating the needs of her guests.

- Charles Eames

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Love of art

Only be an artist for the love of art and for the act of creation...

Nothing else is promised.

- Mentor of Sanford Biggers

Now

Happily ever after is now

Lm
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Feedback

People who love you give you feedback

- l m -

Other people

We forfeit three fourths of ourselves inorder to be like other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer


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Send it back

Chapter
Return food - if it is not made to your liking


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Choosing

Whatever you are not changing,
you are choosing.

Read that again.

- Mattyg

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Debts

All debts must be paid.

- Jordan Peterson

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Consequence

You are free to do anything you want. However, you are not free from the consequence of your choice. All debts must be paid.

- Jordan Peterson

Live

Live = give, share, let go
Live= share your gifts
Live=give

Give
Serve
Honor
Encourage
Help
Nurture
Educate
Inspire
Fight
Let go
Work
Create
Build
Hone
Speak-up


Loki Muthu
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Gap

The gap between my reality and expectations is always the magnitude of my suffering..

- Niki Roda
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Guilt

Guilt is a very wasted emotion


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Sleep

Sleep is the most powerful and cheapest performance enhancing drug.

- Saying




Loki Muthu
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One

We are one

Weight

You have to make people feel the weight of their resistance.

- lm-


Loki Muthu
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comes together

Eventually, everything comes together, and dovetails.

- Emma Walton Andrews

Currency

Money is not the currency for living

Loki Muthu
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Choice

when you make a choice, you change the future

- Deepak Chopra

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Value

We must value our ideas, our time, our life

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Bonnard

Bonnard paints like a drawing and
draws like a painting!

-lm

Behold

To behold
Nothing greater than that!

Commute

I've lived and died in my commute.

- lm

Earn it

That is the word.
You have to earn it

Budget

It's not how much you make, it's how much you budget....


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Enormously

Capable



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With care

Handle with care

Doing the work

I realized, yet again, that my truth is about the doing of the work and continuing to be inspired. It goes right back to standing in front of the easel, doing what I love...

Kim Lordier

Intentional

Be intentional in paying attention to your child.

Service

If people want to be served a certain way, give them what they want and how they like it! No point forcing the other person to have it like your way. This is the spirit of service..

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Kathleen Jamie

I love the intimacy of radio.
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The muse

The muse comes and goes. There are times of intense writing, and times of silence. I've been publishing now for above 30 years, and still feel that it's all provisional. I never can tell what will happen next

Kathleen Jamie 

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Hurt

Hurt-people, hurt people

God - Nicks

I am religious. I wasn't raised in any religion, because we were always moving when I was a kid and didn't get involved in any church. But I believe there have been angels with me constantly through these last 20 years, or I wouldn't be alive. I pray a lot. In the last few years I've asked for things from God, and He's given them to me. And there were things I thought were gonna kill me, and He fixed them....I was destroying this gift that God gave me and asked for help. Now I'm happy, even outside my music, and enjoying my life.

—  Stevie Nicks, 

Jobs

We don't need coats. We need jobs.

- a homeless woman to Veronika Scott, a designer who was designing coats for homeless people.

getting things done

"he is really aggressive on getting things done"

- overheard

Underneath

I know that, underneath the mess, everything is marvelous. I am sure of it.

- Henry Miller

Example

The most effective propaganda for truth is the force of personal example.

- Henry Miller

Who you are

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

- Joseph Campbell

Anxiety

Your anxiety is not my problem

- a

Khosla

Whenever I make an investment, I assume we have lost it. - so there's only upside!
As soon as you write it off in your mind, there is only upside.

V Khosla
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Khosla

How thorough is they're thinking, what is the quality of their thinking? That's the only reason why I used a business plan for.
Vinod Khosla


Loki Muthu
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Board

Frankly being on a board is irrelevant.

Khosla

Dishonest

Polite generally means dishonest

V Khosla

Vinod Khosla

I am amazed at how few people actually have a believe system. What do they actually believe in?

Most people do what is expected of them rather than do - what they want to do.

(What do you believe in versus what do others expect)

V Khosla


Loki Muthu
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Willingness to Fail

I'd like to say that my willingness to fail is what gives me the ability to succeed. I find most people are so afraid to fail, they don't try and do the things that will be important for them to do..


V Khosla
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Doing

Anything worth doing is hard.

- V Khosla

Poverty of attention

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

- Herbert Simon

Mornings

An early start is the best kind of start.

- lm

Park

I love any park that's well maintained.

Kadir Nelson

Surface

Every surface has its peculiarity.

- Olympia Zagnoli

Song

The song for me is the currency, not the band...

-Sting

Palette

I don't like to feel limited by the palette I've been given...
-Sting

Miraculous

It's kind of a miraculous process that I don't really fully understand even though I've written hundreds of songs. But I'm always grateful. When I get something coherent at the end of the day.

- Sting on the process of song-writing
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No agenda

No serious agenda here...
- Sting
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Checked boxes

People like checked boxes. They don't like to read paragraphs and infer.

(In the context of a resume)

-lm

Rain

How you love the rain!
-a

Pointless

If you are thoughtless, it is pointless.

- lm

Struggle

Strength and growth only come through continuous effort and struggle.

— Napoleon Hill

Experiment

I AM the experiment.

I give myself permission to experiment with my life.

L//M

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Design for life

Idea for book
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What did you do with your degree

It's not that you went to a prestigious institution for an education. But what did you do with it?

Remember, it is just a platform.

What did you do with your degree you earned?

War

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war...

Picasso

Shamina Talyarkhan

Beauty interests me. I'll follow it anywhere..
-Shamina Talyarkhan

Stern

"If you break the tradition every week, it's not really a tradition anymore, it's more of an architectural temper tantrum," Stern explained. "I like to make my buildings look like people have seen similar buildings before, to build up a culture of form, not tear a culture of form down."

Robert A.M. Stern

Proper

Proper never exists


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Apology

Let us all lead god fearing lives. So we never need an apology


Loki Muthu
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Life alone is enough

A story is not compulsory, just a life. That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

~Beckett

Results

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

- Winston Churchill

hostage

I'm obsessed by not being held hostage by service providers.

-a 

Life

When you show up to work, you bring a life with you.

- Rosalind Brewer

Cultivation

Let us not forget that cultivation of the earth is the most important labour of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

— Daniel Webster

All kinds of minds

The world needs all kinds of minds.

- Temple Grandin

Architecture

Studying architecture, to some people, is, like, 'Oh, you build buildings.' But to me it's a way of thinking. It's a way of problem-solving with a rationale. And you can apply that rationale to building a building but also to scrambling eggs.

- Virgil Abloh 

Home

Be at home with yourself.

- Joel Paterson

Expectations

You need to manage expectations early.
-a

Wing

Love has wings, not anchors


Loki Muthu
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Kahlo

I am my own muse. The subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

- Frida Kahlo

Drawing

Back to Drawing
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-lm

Structure

The strength of the drawing is in the structure

-lm

(Structure is the foundation of strength)

What have you done

Dreamed up, gotten done and pushed out!

Design time

Design the use of your time.

-lm

Hurt

In the real world when you hurt someone by throwing a punch or by being angry. They will throw a punch right back at you.

I know that I've thrown a punch back at you. And I'm sorry. I hope you will forgive me someday.


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Parenting notes

I'm changing myself because I want to be a better person and a better parent.

I hear you.

When you are angry, you are hurting somebody. And you will hurt in return.

It's like throwing a punch. It hurts.

When you throw hurt to somebody, you hurt.

There is a saying "hurt people hurt others"

Forgiveness is strong.

Frustration means when a goal is blocked.

Instead of anger and showing anger, use the word frustrated.



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Intention

The best outcomes are not pursued with intention...

- lm

Henry Miller

From the little reading I had done, I observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity...creation.

Whole

Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.

- Rumi

Strong

Strong headed doesn't necessarily mean you are strong.

- dr Reimers

Positiveness

Every opportunity for positiveness.

Dr Reimers

Beautiful people are made

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Discipline

Any artistic winter requires a lot of discipline.

Mary Oliver

Drenched

He was positively drenched in enthusiasm, and, yet, I don't know why...


Mary Oliver on a Wren?

Prayer

Is a prayer a gift or a petition or does it matter?

- Mary Oliver

Emblem of Resilience

In this way, art becomes an emblem of resilience, even productivity. It gives us that wonderful feeling that our suffering can be of use.

Donnersmarck

Living

Living authentically requires occasionally leaving your old self behind to create and discover a new self. Part of being alive is awaiting the revelation of who you'll become.

- Joshua Rothman

The scholar-liness of dropping out

Kalinga Rao was a primary school drop-out. But his knowledge of six languages was near scholarly...

- from Wikipedia

Feminism

Feminism is about equality, it's not about superiority

— a

Useful

Being useful is the essence of good business.
Likewise in design, it's not about what you want, your designs will only be successful as much as they help others.

- Steve Turbek

Relation

Everything relates to everything else...

- Sharon Sprung
Artist

Frictionless

The "frictionless" experience is addicting.

- Caryn Seidman-Becker

Montaigne

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

- Montaigne

Consistency

We should control the environment in our house consistent with our values.

- a

Poetic victory

Poets always win!

-lm

Generosity

People reveal themselves through their generosity or lack there-of.

-a

Monet

I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter...

- Claude Monet

Nehru

There is a stillness and everlastingness about the past, it changes not and has a touch of eternity, like a painted picture or a statue in bronze or marble. Unaffected by the storm and upheavals of the present, it maintains its dignity and repose and tempts the trouble spirit and the tortured mind to seek shelter in its vaulted catacombs. There is peace there and security, and one may even sense a spiritual quality..

Nehru
While in prison

Authority

For they would welcome with garlands, and addresses of welcome, of whoever happened to wield authority...

- Nehru

Moderation

Observe due measure;

moderation is best in all things.

—Hesiod 

(c.700bc)

Everything

(Eventually)
Everything becomes nothing...
Everything gets erased, washed out...

- Meera paati, translated from Tamil, when she recounted dad's passing away from this world..