“Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.” MenEndsWaterWalksPoorHe ManDrinkSkillsFootstepsStale Book:Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain
“I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.” ThinkingWritingYearsPersonsStoriesWaterSkillsInstanceCupsBetter PersonBathingFlashlightsCandlelight Author:Janine di Giovanni
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsArtRunningGrowsWaterMediaTenSkillsPerceptionMessagesMassOppositesSecondsHookMake You ThinkIconicMass MediaSensationalVasesDoggedness Author:Robert Hughes
“You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.” IfsYearsBodySeemsLawWaterImpossibleSkillsDancingYour BodyGravityFloatsAthletics Author:Karen Armstrong