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“Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

“Evelyn Waugh was an illustrator. Poe was a deft portraitist. Hermann Hesse was a skilled painter, as was Strindberg. Emily and Charlotte Brontë drew, as did Goethe, Dostoevsky, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Ruskin, Dos Passos, Blake, Pushkin…”
― Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read

“To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you’ll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day.”
― Veronica Lawlor, One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media

“The single greatest challenge to leaders today (and that includes thinkers, teachers, managers, presidents, parents, CEOs, designers, salespeople, students—all of us) is this: We have to make more increasingly complex ideas more clear, more quickly and more persuasively than ever, to more audiences who are more informed and have more access to more information than ever.”
― Dan Roam, Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work