Quotes: Charles Duhigg

"Small wins are exactly what they sound like, and are part of how keystone habits create widespread changes. A huge body of research has shown that small wins have enormous power, an influence disproportionate to the accomplishments of the victories themselves. "Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage, one Cornell professor [Karl E. Weick] wrote in 1984. "Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favour another small win." Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach." 

–– Charles Duhigg (b. 1974), American journalist and non-fiction author

Source: Charles Duhigg. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2012; p. 112.

via Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2013, p. 18. 

Quotes: Grace Lee Boggs

"To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/spiritual leap and become more "human" human beings. In order to change/transform the world, they must change/transform themselves."

–– Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015), American writer, philosopher, social activist and feminist 

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 30. 

Quotes: Joanna Macy

"Falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells." 

–– Joanna Macy (b. 1929), American environmental activist, scholar & author 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 7.

Quotes: Pico Iyer

"Travel is, ultimately, about those words that begin in "trans." Transport, transcendence, and transformation. It's not the sights that send one home a different person; it's something around the sights, between the lines, a moment when one forgets oneself, that sudden serendipity not to be found on any postcard or secondhand image." 

–– Pico Iyer (b. 1957) British-born novelist and essayist 

Source: Pico Iyer. "Why we must see the world for ourselves, now more than ever." The Globe and Mail. Saturday August 11, 2018, p. O4.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 f, 2018, p. 31. 

Quotes: Pico Iyer

"If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end." 

–– Pico Iyer (b. 1957) British-born novelist and essayist 

Source: Alexander Bisely. 'How far do we need to go to find paradise?' The Globe and Mail, Saturday April 29, 2023, p. P4. Quote is from Pico Iyer's 1998 essay, Why We Travel.

Quotes: Bruce Kuwabara

"Like art, great architecture is a transformation of tradition and can change the way we see, experience, and relate to each other and the world. True transformation invites new ways of thinking, creative processes, new forms and expression." 

–– Bruce Kuwabara, Canadian architect 

Source: Akimbo, February 17, 2022, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery announcement, Kingston, Ontario.

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 17.