Creativity is about connections and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.
Surround yourself with the mess of what you love.
Keep your tools organized and your materials messy.
When in doubt, tidy up. Because as you work through the clutter you will discover things.
Neuroscientists have explained that cerebrospinal fluid in your brain starts flowing more rapidly when you sleep, cleaning out the toxins and bad proteins that build up in your brain cells.
Leave things better that you found them.
The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality.
Walk around. Walking is a way to find possibility in your life when there doesn’t seem to be any left.
Explore the world on foot.
Imitate the tree. Learn to lose in order to recover and remember that nothing stays the same for long.
I’ll go on until I fall over - David Hockney(painter)
Everyday is a potential seed that we can grow into something beautiful. There’s no time for despair. The thing to rejoice in is the fact that one had the good fortune to be born.
The odds against being born are astronomical. None of us know how many days we’ll have, so it’d be a shame to waste the ones we get.
There is art left to me made in this world. - Anthony Bourdain
What I think that this book is telling us about to live our life to the fullest without worrying too much. If you want something or want to do something, do it. Take some part of your day to do what you love if you other family financial problems and all that kind of problems. Just don’t ruin your life. What we all have is a single day.