Komla Amoaku Quotes & Sayings

When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever.

~Allen Walker — Katsura Hoshino

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction. — Mary Beth McKenzie

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use. — Evgeny Morozov

Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower. Rather, education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved. — Steven Pinker

It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility. — Suzanne Young

As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off. — Jeffrey Fry

Vague. Since when are you vague with me?
I exhale and recap the whole situation. Chase scoffs and laughs appropriately. By the time I'm finished, I've successfully converted him to team Seth. — Skyla Madi

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious. — Terry Tempest Williams

Everyone agrees.
The dead singers have the best voices.
At four o'clock in the morning
the dead singers have the best voices. — Franz Wright

God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job. — John Bertram Phillips

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. — Norman Mailer

Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority. — Jonathan Chait