"You know, I"ve come to believe perfection only lives in little moments. You know? Can't be sustained over hours. Just instances, you know? Little wisps of time. Then the world becomes imperfect again."
–– Character John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner
Source: Yellowstone 5.6 episode: "Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow and You."
"If you never question things, your life ends up being limited by other people's imaginations. Take the time to think and dream, to question and reconsider. It is better to be limited by what you can dream for yourself than by where you fit in someone else's dream."
–– James Clear (b. 1986), American writer, Atomic Habits.
Source: Jeff Karp. LIT: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action. New York: William Morrow, 2024; p. 29.
"Would everyone simply return to their old habits once the pandemic was over, or would they have learned what Karen already knew –– that walking the city was its own reward? Time for thought, time to spy on the lives of others, time to discover new routes and expand the mental map."
–– Val McDermid (b. 1955), Scottish author
Source: Val McDermid. Past Lying: A Karen Pirie novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023; p. 442.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 16.
"Every person is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
–– Voltaire, nom de plume of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French writer, historian and philosopher
Source: dailyphilosopher, Instagram, November 21, 2024.
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 38.
"Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you get hit with a day, or an hour, or half a second when so much happens it's almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet."
–– E. R. Frank, American fiction writer social worker, and psychotherapist
Source: E.R. Frank, Life is Funny, 2000; via Words of Women August 19, 2024, Instagram
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 1.
"Art is a game between all people of all periods."
–– Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French conceptual artist
"... Novelty is overrated; Success often comes when you're second or third, or even twenty-second, to the party. The key is to keep pushing, because you're more likely to succeed with experience –– and also because you're likelier to get lucky as time passes."
–– Adam Alter, South African writer and professor
Source: Adam Alter. Anatomy of a Breakthrough. Toronto: Simon & Shuster, 2023; p. 30.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2023, p. 132.
"When I feel creatively stuck I remember some great advice a furniture designer gave me years ago: by starting to make something, the act of making will function as a problem-solving process and the work will reveal itself to me in unfolding layers as I continue to put in the time."
–– Tara Badcock, Tasmanian artist
Source: Faire Magazine Issue 9, July 2023, p. 61.
via: Aboveground Art Supplies Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 31.
"Discipline, primarily, is our capacity to make a commitment in time."
–– Robert Fripp (b. 1946) English guitarist, record producer and author
Source: Austin Kleon newsletter December 1, 2023. Robert Fripp. The Guitar Circle.
via: Aboveground Art Supplies Sketchbook 2020, 2023, p. 27.
"Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life's account every day. ... One who daily puts the finishing touches to his life is never in want of time."
–– Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman
Source: Seneca. Moral Letters to Lucilius via Ryder Carroll. The Bullet Journal Method.
via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 36.
"There is a long time in me between knowing and telling."
–– Grace Paley (1922-2007), American writer, teacher, activist
Source: Jennifer Weiner. Mrs. Everything. 2019; unpaginated.
via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022 p. 21.
"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he's never expected."
–– Tove Jansson (1914-2001), Finnish writer, artist, painter
Source: Beata Heuman. Every Room Should Sing. New York: Rizzoli, 2021; p. 55.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 56.
"Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen."
–– Epictetus (50-135 A.D.), Greek stoic philosopher
"I don't want more, I want less. I want to have less, so I will have more time to devote to this gift that I have. Because in the final analysis, the only thing that we have that is not renewable is our life. When I am dead, they will still make money. My time, I have decided, is more important. To claim my time to do what I want to do in that time."
–– Amos Kennedy Jr. (b. 1948), American printmaker, book artist, and papermaker
"When there is nowhere to go, you realize that most of the time you are racing purposefully from place to place, missing out on how wondrous it all is."
–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer
Anne Lamott. Dust, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage. New York: Riverhead Books, 2021; p. 163.
via Commonplace Book 2020-2021, p. 118.
"To be young, really young, takes a very long time."
–– Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist
via Sketchbook 4, 2008, p. 108
