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Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.”

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Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch is an American author best known for his book 'Free Play: The Power of Improvisation in Life and Work'. His work explores the application of improvisation in art and life, and how it can promote personal growth and creativity. more

“I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.”

Mean Play Creative Skills Instruments Depth Impulse Tone Muscles Endurance Flexibility Pathways Imposing Responsiveness

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.”

Heart Long Desire

Author:Joseph Conrad

“If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.”

Ifs Long Belief Ugly Quarters Shopping Malls Cathedrals

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.”

Writing Kind Self Happens Fall Reading Painting Listening Transformation Falling In Love Submit Composing Eros Swept Away

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art