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Well ... here I am
What do you want, Joe, my life history? Here it is in four words: big ideas, small results.
---Barbara Stanwyck in “Clash by Night”
I suppose artists, like the saints, know they are receivers. Their job is to summon every skill, every kind of attention and remain skinlessly alert in order, as Picasso said, ‘to find’.
---from “On Pilgrimage” by Jennifer Lash
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. I believe, in short, that we are equally beholden to heart and mind, and that those who have particularly passionate temperaments and questioning minds leave the world a different place for their having been there. It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy. Intensity has its costs, of course -- in pain, in hastily and poorly reckoned plans, in impetuousness -- but it has its advantages as well... unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life, one ought to be on good terms with one's darker side and one's darker energies. And, above all, that one should learn from turmoil and pain, share one's joy with those less joyful and encourage passion when it seems likely to promote the common good. Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison