Sometimes when you’re discouraged you need a good baseball platitude. Sometimes you need ten good baseball platitudes. These were all culled from columns published in the last few days, hence the omission of some of the classics. “I feel more … Continued
We have not inherited this land from our ancestors: rather we have borrowed it from our children. Attribution is not so simple.
Paolo’s mind was always going out into the cosmos. I learned how much you can do with very little, the potential of simplicity and the ability to make unbelievable things from modest means, to dream huge dreams. Will Bruder, AIA, … Continued
“The preservers of history are as heroic as its makers.” Pat Morris Neff, former president of Baylor University and two-term governor of Texas. I first heard this quote when we interviewed Robert Darden in Chicago. Here’s how Robert used it. … Continued
You can file this one next to the Martha Graham quote about “divine dissatisfaction, blessed unrest.” I’m not sure this one is as motivational, but here you go. Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and … Continued
A Quote from Teddy Roosevelt I was looking through Barbara Bosworth’s stunning book of photos, Trees, when I came upon this quote in the accompanying essay by Douglas R. Nickel. There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation … Continued
When I was at VCCA in October, I screened the A Life’s Work sample for my fellow residents. I introduce the sample as I always do, with a few caveats, including the big one: the ending is not the real … Continued
“If you lose yourself in your work, you find who you are. If you express the best you have in you in your work, it is more than just the best you have in you that you are expressing.” Frederick Buechner, … Continued
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. Neil Armstrong
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake. I’m not one for name calling, but it is certainly true that when a person like David Milarch or Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who … Continued