Kind

Kind

Loving

Gentle

-always 

In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

-Margaret Atwood

In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

-Margaret Atwood

Loki Muthu

—

Ettlinger

I never say smile

Marion Ettlinger

ettlinger

In the best sense of the word, the grin distorts the face.

Ettlinger

Go with what's happening....

Marion Ettlinger

Do your part well

Do your part well. Don't trip on yourself. Have self-respect for what you do.

Loki Muthu
—

Ann Patchett

It was not that I wanted to be a writer, it was that I wanted to write…
—

Control

You are in control of your life
You are in control of your work.

Life is not in control of you
Work is not in control of you

Stop the false impression that work is controlling you.

All your freedoms are available you.
If you are only willing to exercise your rights.

Exercise your right - that you are free

Free

You come free and empty
And go free and wilted
And go free and unexpected





—

Raised

The way we were raised, is an impediment to being successful


—

safe

people need to feel safe 

math

"I got pulled back to the origin," he said. Creating AoPS was a return to his math-competition roots.

math

"We should write a book," Lehoczky declared; it could help democratize advanced math. The two went on to self-publish a two-volume textbook titled "The Art of Problem Solving." The book taught "not facts, but approaches," they wrote. "If you find yourself memorizing formulas, you are missing the point."

- on Richard Rusczyk

Claire

"There are so many adventures in my painting, so many unknowns, my own dramas, my ups and downs. When I paint, I give everything, I don't have any safety net."

Claire Tabouret

—

Notes for Loki

The only thing I am going to leave behind is who I was through: my love for drawing, my love for the written word, my love for nature, my love for music.

Figure it out Loki, leave behind something lasting by uncovering who you are…




Loki Muthu
—

Leverage

Leverage your privilege

Loki Muthu
—

Express your needs

You don't get what you want unless you express your needs…

-lm-
—

High level

You have to play at a high level at wherever it is you are pursuing…

Challenge yourself
Put yourself amidst players at high level


Loki Muthu
—

Joy

Joy of being alive:
Near to plants
Near to water
Art
Music
Reading
Writing
Being useful
—
—

Soul

There is a Soul to every great institution, and you go wrong if you betray that.

Steven Lavine



—

Childhood and old age

The older I grow, the more I notice that childhood and old age not only meet but are the two most profound states we are given to live. The essence of a being is revealed in them, before or after the efforts, aspirations, ambitions of life.

-Marguerite Yourcenar
—

Disagree

I like it when people disagree about stuff

Kelefa sanneh
—

Respond

Respond - to life
Respond - to feedback
Respond - to a situation

Don't just not respond
Not responding is resigning

Responding is living
Resigning is death

Be an alive man taking charge of your life and reacting and engaging the world around you.

Don't ever be a dead man walking…

Practice the art of responding



Loki Muthu
—

Dance

Dance the dance of love


Loki Muthu
—

Play

Play the game of life
—

Command

You command

You show confidence

You do not show the anxiety of getting the work done

You show strength

You drive through

—

Command
Strength
Control
Confidence
Delivery

Presentation
Clarity of thought
Delegation
Elevate the team
Ritz Carlton client service



Loki Muthu
—

On waiters

Be available, but invisible…
Whatever you do, don't be the one having dinner with them..

-lm-
—

Leaf

Three leaves

It's a compositional exercise 

Cards whose design is composed of three leaves…..

Can also be an idea for large scale work 

Three leaves 

Green leaves

Autumn leaves

Russet leaves 

Variegated leaves

Blue leaves collection

Turks and Caicos collection 

Beach leaves

Banana leaves

Fern leaves

Mango leaves 

Oak leaves 

Pinnate leaves

Indigo leaves 

- -

The leaf is like bread

The flower is like cake 

Loki Muthu

—

Who can find a good woman?

31:10-31


Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

- -

Who can find a good woman?
She is precious beyond all things.
—

31.10

Who can find a good woman?
She is precious beyond all things…


—

this life is yours

every second of every minute of every day in your life is yours and yours alone.

to do whatever you want with it.

You rule.

You drive your own car

Don't ever for one second think that you owe your life to anyone,

If you are with someone, you are choosing to share your minutes with someone.

it's a choice, not an obligation!!!!

nobody can tell you what to do.

Nobody owns your life, the hours, the minutes.

Celebrate your life the way you want it to.

Spend the hours the way you want to.

Design the life you love

this life, this life, is yours, and yours alone 

-lm- idea

Caring

You can care about how people feel, but can't be responsible for how they feel…

Gladys

—

Divorce

Sometimes in breakups, there's no pure enemy - everyone bears some culpability.
John Caramanica
—

Kids

Carol Opoku Bagley knows kids like a mechanic knows cars

-LM-



—

Book project idea

"Something to do"

When it's raining
When it's snowing
When mom and dad are fighting
When it's Saturday morning



Loki Muthu
—

Wealth within

There is wealth already within you….

- Toyin OjiHodutola
—

years

Some years are fruitful and some aren't;
you can never tell.

Elizabeth Macklin

Reading

When you read and read and read a lot, you become a good writer…

-lm-
—

Crisis

I have very steady hands in times of crisis.
I become a surgeon, with very streaky hands….

-lm-
—

David Allen.

Make life work.

David Allen next paragraph get things done

Loki Muthu
—

David Allen

It's a great time to be alive if you know what you're doing and you have a little discipline

David Allen

Getting things done


Loki Muthu
—

Kurasawa

This quote:

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
― Akira Kurosawa
—

Organic

Organic farming is what farming is really all about….


- Arul Karthikeyan
—

Listening

Sales conversations are not about talking, but about listening.
—
-lm-

Give greatly

To succeed, one must give greatly of herself…

About Virginia McDonald


—

Esther Parell

The quality of our relationships determine the quality of our life

Loki Muthu
—

Esther Parell

Stay connected to the adventurous side of life


—

Roger Williams botanical garden, Providence

Pane Vino, Providence

Decide for yourself

To be passive is to let others decide for you.

To be aggressive is to decide for others.

To be assertive is to decide for yourself.

Edith Eger

Tools

We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us..

Marshall McLuhan

My favorite food

Is cassava leaves

- Mickey

—

Bobby brown

To me there's no such thing as failure when something doesn't work out it's an opportunity for you or a message to try something different

Loki Muthu
—

In small measure

All work, all progress, all growth is incremental

Same actions repeated over and over again..
Repetition and continuous practice

Loki Muthu
—

Pencil

"It all starts with the pencil ✏️ "

Loki Muthu
—

Poem

My Favorite Poets
by Adam Zagajewski
Issue no. 226 (Fall 2018)

My favorite poets
never met
They lived in different countries
and different ages
surrounded by ordinariness
by good people and bad
they lived modestly
like an apple in an orchard
They loved clouds
they lifted their heads
a great armada
of light and shade
sailed above them
a film was playing
that still hasn't ended
Moments of bitterness
passed swiftly
likewise moments of joy
Sometimes they knew
what the world was
and wrote hard words
on soft paper
Sometimes they knew nothing
and were like children
on a school playground
when the first drop
of warm rain
descends

—Translated by Clare Cavanagh

—

Invictus 

BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

—

Universe

I was born and raised in this house. It was my whole universe.

Zarina Hashmi
—

Start

It all starts with a pencil

—

Dylan

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
— Bob Dylan

—

Osep

Three lines from Tristia by Osip Mandelstam

I have studied the Science of departures,
......

Who knows, when the word 'departure' is spoken
what kind of separation is at hand,
.....

—

Repetition and recollection

"Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is recollected has been, is repeated backwards, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forward. . . Hope is a new garment, stiff and starched and lustrous, but it has never been tried on, and therefore one does not know how becoming it will be or how it will fit. Recollection is a discarded garment that does not fit, however beautiful it is, for one has outgrown it."

- Søren Kierkegaard. Repetition.


—

Challenge yourself

Challenge yourself in life. All the time. Challenge yourself to be the better person. Challenge yourself to be the best person you can be.


Loki Muthu
—

Treated badly

Never allow anyone to be humiliated or abused in front of you…

—

Anger

Anger, like jealousy, is an unacceptable emotion in our lives…..
—

Esther Perel

Stay connected to the adventurous side of life.

Esther Perel


Loki Muthu
—

Treat us

We have to teach people how to treat us!!!


Loki Muthu
—

Our own making

Everything should be our own making.
Nobody else has any decision power over us.




Loki Muthu
—

Present

Be present
Be alive
Smile


Loki Muthu
—

Management

Any kind of active management is over management 

-lm- 

—

Every day

Everyday is a honey-moon

-lm-
—

Yes and no

Yes!!!!
Say Yes

No,
Absolutely no!!!

Say yes!!! Without any doubt
Don't hesitate to say no

Say no! Say no!!



Loki Muthu
—

Equal and sacred

Relationship = equal and sacred


Loki Muthu
—

Everyday

Everyday is honeymoon


Loki Muthu
—

Work and play

Be ferocious at work.



Loki Muthu
—

The palm Syndrome

Searching for the best in the world when the best in the world is right here in front of you


Loki Muthu
—

Shawanda

Live a simple life.

Shawanda
—

Good hearts

Good hearts will find each other

Kerryann Benjamin


Loki Muthu
—

Creature

I walk
I talk

I rest
I write

I breathe
I see

I eat
I sleep

I pee
I poo

- in this manner,



- Loki Muthu

Sound of Truth

The truth sounds different than lies


Loki Muthu
—

Move

If I am an advocate for anything, it's to move.As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean or simply, across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes, or at least eat their food. It's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move…

Anthony Bourdain

—

Boss

I am the boss of me. Nobody fuck with me


Loki Muthu
—

Reflect

I reflect whatever I see


—

Friday

You're home Friday, right?
- overheard in elevator

Loki Muthu
—

Future

Are you doing the work of the future or are you doing the work of the past. Choose wisely

-lm-
—

You always have the information about what you are up against. The people who built the pyramids or the Sarge Mahal knew what they were up against and wanted to surpass that


Loki Muthu
—

Continuous practice

People become who they are by doing the same thing over and over again


Loki Muthu
—

Water

She drank all my water.


Loki Muthu
—

Menker

Smell of desperation versus smell of abundance!!!!


Loki Muthu
—

Religion

I am purer in that I am untainted by the color of religion


Loki Muthu
—

Sounds like

Profiteering sounds like racketeering


Loki Muthu
—

Enough

You need what you need.

You don't need more.

You don't need to profit from someone.

Nobody needs profit.

If your needs are met, If you are well taken care for, the rest is for those that have been unable to meet their basic needs. Nobody needs to profit from anyone!

Profiting is greed.

Capitalism is industrialization of greed.

It is the single greatest manipulator in channeling the infinity of human potential to the subservience its bottomless pit with its endless appetite.

- -

Is there an entity or an organization that says 10% is enough?

It pays all of us well?

We don't have to charge more?

10% is enough?

Enough is enough?

We need what we need?

—

What is all the profit doing anyway?

What good comes of it?

—

Can the destruction of our planet be attributed to profit?

Is credit the father of all toxins?

—-

Profit utters "we need more"

That is where contamination begins.

—-

Modernity, comfort, ease of everything, automatic-wiping-of-ass machinations and the like - is a dream as much as it is a nightmare.

Just a dream

Just a dream

- -

We are born in perfection

We evolve from perfection to imperfection.

We evolve from creation to destruction

We die in humiliation


- -






—

Don’t bring your garbage

This is a clean house. This is a peaceful house. Don't bring your garbage into this house. If you do so, I will throw it right back at you.

REBOUND


—

Simple and complex

The subject can be simple, but the rendering and we made very complex and nuanced and beautiful.

Example. A painting of a fruit or a painting of a flower.

Loki muthu
—

Chopra

Stress is the perception of threat

Deepak chopra
—

Eye

Whatever the eye sees is always abundant
Loki muthu
—

Life

LIFE IS SENSUAL


Loki Muthu
—

Chekhov

Perhaps the feeling that we experience when we are in love represent a normal State. Being in love shows a person who she should be.

Anton Chekhov
—

For me

I do it for the satisfaction of myself. Not for the satisfaction of anybody else.

-lm-
—

Dismantle

Dismantle the white man's paradise.
The colonial mindset. Dismantle the colonial mindset.

Eradicate the colonial mindset. Colonial mindset still exists, still thrives, still persists, in modern forms. Dismantle it. Eradicate it. Extinguish it. Understand what it is and meticulously extricate it extricate it.

What is the opposite of the colonial mindset?
What is on the other side of the white man's paradise.

The white man's paradise,
The black man's prison sentence
and the woman's disenfranchisement

-lm-

—

Parity

The path to parity is not only empowering blacks, but also dismantling, at the same time, the white man's paradise.

-lm-
—

Sea water

I am mostly made of seawater
I am sea water
I am water, mostly

- Loki Muthu
—

Has the delivery happened?

Is the ball in the basket?
Is the baby delivered?

—

Conditions

Consciousness has been raised, but conditions have not improved…

-lm-

—

Who we are

The books and stories we fall in love with, make us who we are…

Salman Rushdie
—

Dostoevsky

"I gave up caring about anything, and all my problems disappeared"

- Fyodor Dostoevsky
—

Brodsky

he regarded poetry as "language's highest degree of maturity", and wanted everyone to be susceptible to it.

—

Play on all Cylinders

Play on all cylinders…



—

Learn

Not everything you will need to learn will be taught to you….

-lm-

—

Salvation

Creation is equal to salvation.

Salvation is equal to creation


Loki Muthu
—

Put out something beautiful into this world

Loki Muthu
—

Listen to your body

Listen to your body.

Your body is always giving you feedback. Don't be invincible. Pay

—

Prim and proper

She kept her self prim and proper.

Esther PEREL'S mom


Loki Muthu
—

Adventure

Stay connected to the adventurous side of life.

Esther Perel

Loki Muthu
—

Antidote to death

They were going to experience the erotic as the antidote to death.

Esther Perel in speaking about her parents who are Holocaust survivors

Loki Muthu
—

Esther perel

There is a world of difference between not being dead and being alive.

Esther P

Loki Muthu
—

Mission

Be on a mission in life


Loki Muthu
—

Real learning disabilities

"Fear and shame"

Real learning disabilities

Edward M Hallowell

John Ratey


—

Millimeters tell all

When it comes to facial expressions, millimeter tell all. Dr. Edward and Hallowell and John radek


Loki Muthu
—

Turn up the volume

We need to turn up the volume on who we are.

-lm-

—

Food

Food is meant to be cooked fresh

-lm-

—

Up and go

Mode should be:
Up and go - all the time.
Keep moving, keep doing, keep creating all the time.




Loki Muthu
—

A confidence does arise

Through those experiences, a confidence does arise.

Ethan Hawke

—

In this rib cage

Writing, for me, is the way to explore what's happening in this rib cage

Loki muthu

Went at it

I just fucking went at it.


Anilu Vasquez
—

Impulse

Taking a picture is an impulse for me. I don't make the picture. Something in me tells me to shoot the picture. I don't shoot the picture


Loki Muthu
—

Seed

I carry the seed of my mother and father


Loki Muthu
—

Dream

I am the dream of my mother and father.

Loki Muthu
—

Omnivore

We are a lot more omnivore than we think we are.

Loki Muthu
—

Evangelical

I am evangelical about the films I love and the books I love.
Anthony Bourdain
—

Good things

I like making good things.

Anthony Bourdain
—

Lie

You start with a lie. It only gets worse..

Anthony Bourdain


Loki Muthu
—

What’s a win for Anthony Bourdain

50% of the people really loved the show. And 50% of the people really despised it. Now that's a win for us.

Anthony Bourdain



—

Never think about the audience

We never think about the audience. That's the road to madness..

Anthony Bourdain

—

Certainty

It's not nice to come away certain of things. In fact it's wrong to come away certain of things. Certainty is almost always bad...

Anthony Bourdain
—

will not appear

vulnerability is not my appearance.

I see you as you are approaching

my fire will burn you

No longer vulnerable

Still a good man, but no longer vulnerable

loki muthu

Today

What you do today is what matters

What you do today is what matters
—

Boundaries

Be very deliberate about the health of your boundaries....



—

Transition

Transitioned from
Living her life to living my life
—

Ursula

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Ursula k Guin 

—

Love, like, bread

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K Guin 

—

Ursula

The writer's  pleasant duty  is to ply the reader's imagination with "the best and purest nourishment that it can absorb...

Ursula K Guin 

—

In plain sight

Loki Muthu
—

Disruptor book notes

I am a disruptor of evil.

I am a disruptor off inequity.

I am a disruptor of injustice.


—

Monastic

Cultivated a simplicity that bordered on the monastic.

Ward Bennett
—

Monastic

—

Not for me.

I don't want anything for me.
Everything is me

—

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

The best house is polite to her neighbors and never shouts.


—

Ryuichi Sakamoto

That's why I drove upstate. The sound environment is completely different. Even a big city like New York has a unique soundscape. Paris is a big city, but last year in June or something, July, I was walking around in Paris recording sounds. Sounds are very different. 

To me, recording is like fishing. You know, catching fish and then I get back home and start cooking with the fish. And that's exactly how I feel. So, in Paris I got the great fish. It made me really happy. All of a sudden I started hearing some children's voices from a building, like a school. In Japan, schools have a big yard. But in New York or Paris, they don't have a yard. Very tiny. So from the street all of a sudden I heard children singing. I don't know that I have heard children singing from the schools in New York.

You must be very gentle

Some years ago, the other member of YMO, Haruomi Hosono, he's five years older than we are, went to Cuba to look for some musicians, and he saw a very old musician, maybe in his 80s, playing bass in a club or a bar, and his expression about this old musician was, "This old guy plays the bass like cutting tofu." You must be very gentle cutting tofu, otherwise you can damage it, break it. I love that expression, and I want to be like that. I should be like that at 80.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I want to make something I don't know, and that I've never done or never known.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Composer

Generally, I dislike the process of making music based on a blueprint or purpose or aim. If I was an architect, I would be a bad one, because I don't like having blueprints. Of course, without blueprints, nobody knows what the building will be. But that's exactly what I like to do. I shouldn't know what I'm making, or what it will be. I want to make something I don't know, and that I've never done or never known. Hopefully, for me, it's going to be a surprise, and a new experience.

Maira Kalman

Always a solace. Walking and trees.

Maira Kalman
—

art is a technique for life

"I think art is a technique for life," he said. "I do what I do in order to keep living."

Kyohei Sakaguchi

Not so present

We are living our lives in a not so present way

-lm-
—

One home

There is no home, nowhere, for anybody.
You were just dropped here.
You are here. Is this home?
—

Dynamite

Dynamite
—

Don’t get distracted

Don't get distracted by the fact that I am a brown man or a colored person.

Don't get distracted by people's color
Or race
Or origin


-lm-
—

SN Goenka

You are the first victim of your own anger. This realization is another thing that attracted me to the Buddha's teaching."

—

Graffiti

Graffiti is not going away ever

Thomas Corrales
—

Poems

Poems are like little magic pills

Loki Muthu 

Tuymans

"I work from a reaction upon images that are already represented because I believe nothing is really original."

—Luc Tuymans

Tuymans

there's a moment where the intelligence goes from my head to my hands."

—Luc Tuymans

Tuymans

"What could be meaningful? Because that's the most important thing: it has to be meaningful for me, otherwise I can't make it."

—Luc Tuymans

Integrity, Punctuality, Keeping your word

"It's super natural, super chill. I view him as a person of high integrity. Always keeps his word, very punctual. These are some of the qualities I have myself."

Jay-Z on Alexandre Arnault 

2021

humiliated

Do not let anyone be humiliated in front of your eyesight....

(don't know who to attribute it to...)

Seema Hari

Spent the day outside and realized nobody can ever steal my joy

Seema Hari 

Joyce Carol Oates

There's a beauty in things as they are.

Joyce Carol Oates

—

Joyce Carol Oates

Waiting for me on top of that hill is an idea.

Joyce Carol Oates


—

Mr. Bojangles

He looked to me the very eyes of age.

Extract from the song Mr. Bojangles


—

Inside

Inside, the lamp is lit and the fire is always burning.


Loki Muthu
—

Pramod Babu

I think children are hardened by suffering while adults may be softened. I thought of this analogy earlier today in terms of people's natures being like materials such as metals that react differently to heating and cooling and furthermore produce different effects at different temperatures.


Pramod Babu
—

Chaos is now in Production

The chaos is also manufactured - it is now part of "production"

- Pramod Babu


—

Pramod Babu

The media is an instrument of demoralization.

Pramod Babu
—

Navratilova

*Martina Navratilova* *was once asked, "How do you maintain your focus, physique and sharp game even at the age of 43?"*
*She gave a humble reply, "The ball doesn't know how old I am". You need to stop yourself from stopping yourself. Every game in life is actually played on a 6 inch ground – the space between your two ears. We don't live in bungalows, duplexes or flats. We live in our mind which is an unlimited area. Life is great when things are sorted and uncluttered there. Keeping the mind messy with hatred growing on the table, regrets piling up in corner, expectations boiling in kitchen, secrets stuffed under the carpet and worries littered everywhere ruins this real home. The key factor to performing well in life and in every arena, is the ability to control the quality and quantity of your* *"internal dialogue".* *Performance is potential minus internal interference. Live in peace, not in pieces.*

—

Derek Fordjour

Continue to work hard in your studio.

Derek Fordjour

—

Derek Fordjour

Hi don't make success. I make art.

Derek Fordjour

—

Derek Fordjour

Charcoal allowed me to be free
—

Derek Fordjour

It's hard work.

That's the work of an artist.

Derek Fordjour
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Derek Fordjour

You have utmost control in your studio
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Derek Fordjour

Sometimes, arriving at a good place of failure is success.
Derek Fordjour
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Not be there

Don't "Show up" and not be there...
—

Bas content

I don't color up bad content.

Even if you color up bad content, it's still remains bad content. Visual Design cannot change the fact that bad content is bad content


Loki Muthu
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Morning light

Nothing like early morning light in the kitchen..

Paul Bates Architects
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Chang Rae LEE

"Thrusting oneself into the world and being open eyed about it"


"The love the sentence. I love singing that song."

"In the end, it's always a surprise to me, what actually happens on that page"

" I admire fearless writers"

—

Bach

When in trouble, play Bach

Igor Levit

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Prep

Preparation is everything.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
—

Treat people well

Treating people well has equity..
-lm-

hobby

Folding clothes

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Understanding the reason behind this....

Where is this coming from?

Okwui

"Coming from Nigeria, I felt I owed no one an explanation for my existence, nor did I harbor any sign of paralyzing inferiority complex," he told the Nigerian art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu in 2013.

Okwui Enwezor

Curator 

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Walker

I cannot wait to luxuriate in the embrace of the people I love

Darren Walker


Loki Muthu
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Music

I can't describe how I feel, I just want to stay in it...

Comments from audience to YoYo ma's songs of comfort
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Home

To be home, wherever you are.

—

In the middle

The answer, is, without question, somewhere in the middle....
-lm-

Everything thing in moderation
- the Greeks

Some temptations are not temptations...
- Pammi
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Conquer this

Cheerfully doing everyday - things you are supposed to do.


Loki Muthu
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Temptations

- Some temptations are not temptations.

Pammi
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Gifts

Whatever gifts you have, you have to teach them.

-lm-
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John Outterbridge

In castoffs, there are profound treasures. That's what soul food is all about. Chitterlings and pig feet are all about the notion that, as a people, we've taken this crabs, the cast offs, and made them into something so tasty that one can't help but suck right down to the bones.

John Outterbridge