Quotes: Carl Jung

"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites."

–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist 

via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 63. 

Quotes: Harriet Rubin

"Carl Jung said that people are more frightened of their strengths than they are of their weaknesses. If we knew how good we are, Jung believed, we'd have to act on our potential." 

–– Harriet Rubin (b. 1952), American writer 

Source: Harriet Rubin. Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition. New York: Harper Business, 1999; p. 80.

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2002.

Quotes: Julietta Singh

"[I]nterruptions are occasions for reorientation, for producing necessary and new ways of living. We are beginning to lean into the breaks because we must, because in this requisite shift we can sense profound potential to become a more promising form of our collective selves." 

–– Julietta Singh, Canadian scholar, academic and writer 

Source: Julietta Singh. The Breaks: An Essay. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Books, 2021, p. 39.

Quotes: Elizabeth Catlett

"I have always wanted my art to service my people –– to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential." 

–– Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), African American artist 

Source: Lilly Wei. "Her Target was Injustice." ARTnews, June 2012: pp. 40. 

via: Sketchbook 22, 2013, p. 29.

Quotes: Louise Schouwenberg

"Potential appeals to the imagination of the viewer. Something happens with the mind that goes further than showing a cleverly made object, for which a viewer can only feel admiration, and in the meantime comes to feel like a small clumsy person. You could compare it with looking at good art. It doesn't consume energy, but it produces energy. If you see a clever trick it's usually very tiring. But if you see potential, you are elevated as a viewer." 

–– Louise Schouwenberg (b. 1954), Dutch art and design theorist, writer, educator and former visual artist 

Source: Hella Jongerius. Misfit. p. 37.

via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 4