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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