"Whenever someone creates something with all their heart, then that creation is given a soul."
–– Hayao Miyazaki (b. 1941), Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist
"Whenever someone creates something with all their heart, then that creation is given a soul."
–– Hayao Miyazaki (b. 1941), Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist
"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."
–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet
"Whenever she was having trouble making sense of a problem, Lila used to turn the piece of paper she was working on upside down. "It helps to see it from a new perspective," she would say. "This way, I have to concentrate on each number, each symbol. It's like having a second set of eyes with which to view the same picture. Sometimes a completely different angle is all I need to break through."
–– Michelle Richmond, American writer
Source: Michelle Richmond. No One You Know. New York: Bantam Dell, 2008; p. 89.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2023, p. 136.
"Novelty is nothing more than a fresh combining."
–– Steven Heighton (1961-2022), Canadian novelist, poet, short-story writer
Source: Steven Heighton. Work Book. Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press, 2011, p. 25.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2023, p.115.