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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition. Intuition is seeing the solution—seeing it, knowing it. It’s emotion and intellect going together. That’s essential for the filmmaker.
Intuition is combination of head and heart. Intellect and emotion
“Tradition is living and active,” Merton writes, “but convention is passive and dead.”
― The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
― The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
“He learned one very big lesson from these ventures: “It’s not the product that leads to success. It’s the ability to make the product efficiently. It’s about building the machine that builds the machine. In other words, how do you design the factory?” It was a guiding principle that Musk would make his own.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“Prayer is like a workshop for the soul.”
― The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
― The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
“Munger insightfully concluded: “A lot of people are trying to be brilliant. We’re just trying to stay rational. That’s a big advantage. Trying to be brilliant is dangerous.”
― University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
― University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
“Treating works of art as no more than financial instruments robs them of their potential to achieve or maintain popularity through exposure and discussion and thus inhibits what helps them increase in social and commercial value.”
― The Value of Art
― The Value of Art
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