All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Find a way to express what moves you.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.