Success

: "laziness is the habit of giving up before reaching tired."

: "To have an idea and let it travel would unravel the people in the steeple who would battle a free thinking inspiration a re-forming nation inspiration delegation to curb aspiration of the masses and stop clashes between people and state market saturation ofthemost frivolous information all an instigation of a present tense lacking common sense driven to the enth, Degree."

: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

: ANXIETY = feelings of UNCERTAINTY x feelings of POWERLESSNESS

: Socrates said it best, “He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have."

: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Viktor Frankl

: ‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ ~Blaise Pascal

: we are so inviting of interruption that we don't like to interrupt the possibility of our being interrupted.

: we use to trade good for goods, now we make and provide placebos in exchange for points in our bank accounts.

: "Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. It can spontaneously arise at any moment given the right circumstances, point of view and context. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace. It can be a rousing symphonic climax, or just the way the light catches the edge of a rusty old trash can. To seek beauty is to have the willingness, the inclination and the impetuous desire for this chance encounter to transpire. IF you look at history, great art expands the way we see; uplifting the human spirit from the barbaric and thrusting it toward the numinous." The Director

just created a piece for QL2's playhouse season!!

: how would stairs be different had we remained quadrupeds?

: we think with the tools we have.

: "most great ideas come into the world half baked, more hunch than revelation."

: philanthrocapitalism!?

: Don’t confuse intelligence with education.

: innovative systems gravitate towards the "edge of chaos": the fertile zone between too much order and too much anarchy.

Strive

: should we expect (or even try) to enjoy each 'art' we encounter?

: we have biology then we have culture.

: Top performers play an entirely different game.

: "rejection is often arbitrary and impersonal, so if you take it as a reason to be somebody you’re not, you’re making a mistake." - Dennis Palumbo

: "Determining an identity is a strong human need. The questions is, do you have to define yourself in opposition to others, or can you use different tools for that?" - Damien Jalet

: "an idea is not a single thing. It is more like a swarm"

: if you earn over $47,500US per year - you are "the 1%"

: "Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections."

: www.globalrichlist.com

: pre-masticated art

: A good idea is a network. A specific constellation of neurons - thousands of them - fire in sync with each other for the first time.

: "The tree is within the seed" - via Angela Goh

: great acts are made up of small deeds.

Downsizing

: "for anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history, perhaps most - it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous.
If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater."

: Anyone can consume. Few can produce.

: cultivating opportunity.

: there is no such thing as cool. Just follow your enthusiasms honestly.

: temper your anger with nature and exercise.

: "often times, the issue isn’t a lack of ambition: It’s a lack of direction."

: confusing urgent with important..?

Pinhead

: "most of the harm inflicted by man upon his environment, his fellows and himself, is due to greed. Most of the greed, wether it be for power, property, attention, or affection, is due to insecurity. Most of the insecurity is due to fear. And most of the fear is, at bottom, fear of death." Tom Robbins

: we are often better served by connecting ideas than protecting them.

YMCA

: I want to find new artistic ways to express the frailty of self-perception and show that the way we see the world and ourselves is not accidental, it is designed and biased, and that it is only beyond our control while it remains beyond our awareness.

: Facilitating intrigue

: I fight against apathy and sloth, no longer against an invading army and their subsequent culture, but against a fading of our defining cultural attributes into a sea of distraction and inaction.