Personal Notebook
Many of our examples suggest that clarity and excellence in thinking is very much like clarity and excellence in the display of data. When principles of design replicate principles of thought, the act of arranging information becomes an act of insight.
If you look after truth and goodness, Beauty looks after herself.
Painters in the grand style were not concerned with style – they drew with clarity and rigor. Style was born from their work, and just as thought does not think about the sound of its voice nor even the rhythm, but creates them through its act – so they did not … Style must arise naturally from one’s attention to an object and it disappears as the awareness of this attention decreases.
The separation of the sciences and the arts is merely a matter of convention and convenience. But in thinking and acting, man transcends these categories which are simply particular acts. Each one implicitly contains the other.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.
Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.