Sumit

“Design exists to solve problems. That is its truth.
Art is there to pose problems. That is its truth.”
― John S. Couch, The Art of Creative Rebellion: How to champion creativity, change culture and save your soul

“All these philosophies(Stoicism,Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism)have a common failing.
They imagine life can be ordered by human reason.
Either the Mind can devise a way of life that is secure from loss ,or else it can control the emotions so that it can withstand any loss. In fact ,neither how we live nor the emotions we feel can be controlled in this way.
Our lives are shaped by chance and our emotions by the body.Much of human life -and much of philosophy - is an attempt to divert ourselves from this fact.”
― John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

“...there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time―longer than most people imagine....you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people....Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it...it's doing what you love, but not just falling in love―staying in love.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success

“The source of philosophy is anxiety, and cats do not suffer from anxiety unless they are threatened or find themselves in a strange place. For humans, the world itself is a threatening and strange place. Religions are attempts to make an inhuman universe humanly habitable. Philosophers have often dismissed these faiths as being far beneath their own metaphysical speculations, but religion and philosophy serve the same need.1 Both try to fend off the abiding disquiet that goes with being human.”
― John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life