Personal Notebook
Painters in the grand style were not concerned with style – they drew with clarity and rigor. Style was born from their work, and just as thought does not think about the sound of its voice nor even the rhythm, but creates them through its act – so they did not … Style must arise naturally from one’s attention to an object and it disappears as the awareness of this attention decreases.
The separation of the sciences and the arts is merely a matter of convention and convenience. But in thinking and acting, man transcends these categories which are simply particular acts. Each one implicitly contains the other.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.
Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Fundamentally, humans are all designed in a similar way, so products that make life easier for one group are likely to help others too.