Shehab Hamad

“We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“There is his right leg over my right leg, my left leg over his right leg, his left arm under my back, my right arm around his head, his right arm across my chest, my left arm across his right arm, and my right hand stroking his right temple. Now it becomes difficult to tell what part of what body is actually mine and what part his. I rub his head as it lies pressed against mine, and I hear the strands of his hair chafing against his skull as though it is my own hair chafing against my own skull, as though I now hear with his ears, and from inside his head.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

“Stood awhile watching, thinking, praying: Lord, give us more. Give us enough. Help us not fall behind peers. Help us not, that is, fall further behind peers. For kids’ sake. Do not want them scarred by how far behind we are. That is all I ask.”
― George Saunders, Tenth of December

“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow