“We are all black swans.”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Find your unique skill. Find your one of a kind magic problem-solving skill that makes you an elusive black swan.
Art by a black swan – Juliette Oberndorfer.
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“The will must be stronger than the skill.”
– Muhammad Ali – January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016.
Art by Renato Guttuso.
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“All life is problem solving.”
– Karl Popper (Sir Karl Raimund Popper, author of the Logic of Scientific Discovery).
Art by Vladimir Kush.
I have illustrated this with a surreal piece of imagery as I am of the opinion that when we don’t see the solution it is because it pertains to another realm.
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‘What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness.”
-Henri Rousseau, born May 21, 1844.
Mr Henri Rousseau’s art epitomizes the simplicity of beauty we long for.
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Every day is a chance to create feelings.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
Art by Hellen Stratton for The Lily of Life – A fairy tale by the Crown Princess of Romania, with a preface by Carmen Sylva.
Harper Lee’s Birthday
“Some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”
– Harper Lee, April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016.
Art – René Magritte “les fleurs du voyage” 1926.
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clark
A piece of magic by Sam Chivers.
Michael Ondaatje
I like what Mr Ondaatje’s writings do to me.
They take me to a world without maps, to where I can find love in the beat of the wind and the shine of the desert.
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
“A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.”
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
