Provisos Nyt Quotes & Sayings

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness. — Elizabeth Goudge

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action. — Steve Fisher

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste. — William Bernbach

Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive."10 This is a curious notion of productivity - at once overtly political and yet presented innocently enough, as if there were only one possible meaning of "productivity." This perspective on life incorporates the Protestant work ethic (that "productivity" is what makes an animal "effective") and echoes the Old Testament notion that life must be endured, not enjoyed. These assumptions are embedded throughout the literature of evolutionary psychology. Ethologist/primatologist Frans de Waal, one of the more open-minded philosophers of human nature, calls this Calvinist sociobiology. — Christopher Ryan

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. — William Cowper

This then is programming, both a tar pit in which many efforts have floundered and a creative activity with joys and woes all its own. — Anonymous

I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of ... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be. — Jacob August Riis

Real bliss is the absence
of the wanting of bliss — Ramesh S Balsekar

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when. — Marya Hornbacher

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter. — Deb Caletti

Sometimes, when one goes back to the scene of one's childhood, things seem smaller. What was mysterious and the sole province of adults suddenly seems commonplace and mundane when viewed with mature eyes. — Robin Hobb