“If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.” IfsLooksMomentsLastsSufferingNextWake UpWork OutAccomplishmentHappy EndingsThings Work Out Author:Frederick Lenz
“If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.” IfsMomentsArtistMovementSucceedImpressionAccomplishmentConventionalSuspended Book:Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell Source: Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell
“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.” PeopleIfsFeelsLongEndsSometimesHardMomentsHappinessAsksGoalPleasurePrinciplesProgressAchieveSpecialWindHard WorkFoolTasksStriveFinalsHeavyAccomplishmentModeratesThrillingEuphoriaShort LivedDevalue Author:Jonathan Haidt
“The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.” FirstsMomentsFacesKnowingAdventureBoatAccomplishmentConceptionBurnedSplendidFulfilmentAdventurerNew Roads Book:Max Source: Max