Quotes 293: Isamu Noguchi

"We are a landscape of all we have seen." 

–– Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), Japanese American artist and landscape designer 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 97

Quotes 292: Louis Pasteur

"Chance favours the prepared mind." 

–– Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 60

Quotes 291: Ann Davies

"The greatest poverty is boredom. The greatest hell is not having a goal." 

–– Ann Davies 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 58

Quotes 290: Ovid

"In our play we reveal what kind of people we are." 

–– Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō, known in English as Ovid (43 BC -17 AD), Roman poet 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 58

Quotes 289: Charles Handy

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity is the mother of discovery." 

–– Charles Handy (b. 1932), Irish writer and philosopher (quote from The Age of Unreason) 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 56

Quotes 288: Pierre Nora

"The quest for memory is the search for one's history ... Modern memory is, above all, archival. It relies entirely on the materiality of the trace, the immediacy of the recording, the visibility of the image." 

–– Pierre Nora (b. 1931), French historian 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 56

Quotes 287: J.K. Rowling

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." 

–– J.K. Rowling (b. 1965), British writer 

via Sketchbook 5, 2008, p. 54