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For there are two grave obstacles to sound vision. One is intellectual immaturity, the other emotional or moral.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
She thought you could find inspiration everywhere:
I heard once about a Yiddish poet who lived in utter poverty and misery, a teenager, who never had seen anything beautiful in his life, and he made splendid poems about vegetables jumping into the soup pot. My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you don’t have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
The Work and Wisdom of Hedda Sterne
austinkleon.com
That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
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