“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.” IfsArtArtistTeachGreaterPiecesAchieveElementsAchievementIncreaseUnityVarietyComplexityWorks Of ArtSatisfying Author:David Steindl-Rast
“My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.” TeachPiecesAimNonsensePatents Book:Philosophical Investigations Source: Philosophical Investigations
“Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce.” ChildrenArtHardEyeRememberLiteratureTeachPiecesEdgesCaughtDevotionBreathingFeaturesRepresentationAltarsExquisiteApostlesAvariceMisersPathosFarceSingle Eye Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.” IfsFeelsBelieveHumansMomentsShowsMightJobsI BelieveEffortTeachCasesPiecesDivineGeniusJust OneSheerStubbornnessShowing UpHuman Love Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.” WorldMindScienceWinningTeachPiecesBuildingLessonsMachinesIntelligentMathematicsTradeSpeciesVanityWho We AreOur WorldBetter PlaceIntelligent Machines Author:Astro Teller
“I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'” PeopleIfsFirstsLooksSaidShowsWould BeClassTeachPiecesMissingLateFabulousDeadlineLove To ReadLush Author:Christopher Hitchens
“While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.” IfsWorldGivingHas BeensMadeTeachPiecesTaughtCoachesGet UpLegacyMentorInheritanceMentoring Author:John Wooden