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“Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.”

Art Education Lessons Ordinary Affair

Book:The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

Source: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

“...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.”

Children Book Values Secret Identity Taught Lessons Ordinary Rate Crowds Treasure Radical Comic Heroic Comic Book Concealed Ordinary Life Treasured Secret Identity

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.”

People Lying Fall Wonder Successful Player Sea Lessons Ordinary Capacity Eras Engaged Disappointed Geek Malcontent

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

Found Study Teacher Teaching Lessons Ordinary Originals Management Excellence Profound Insight Retirement Mediocrity Exemplary

Book:Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

May Found Lost Ignorance Lessons Ordinary Miracle Sacred Scared Neighbor Flight Daily Life Elsewhere Family And Friends Miraculous Backyards Confronting Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside.”

Thinking Shows Might Today Turns Water Learning Lessons Unique Ordinary Miracle Leaving Boring Tiny Classroom Crystals Exquisite Molecules Analogies Snowflake Unschooling Learning Lessons

Author:Bill Watterson

“Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.”

Shows Violence Lessons Weapons Ordinary Patterns

Author:William T. Vollmann

“...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.”

Inspirational Faith Found Lessons Ordinary Sacred Neighbor Daily Life Family And Friends Backyards Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow