“We have heard the stories: Duke Ellington would say, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” 5 Tennessee Williams felt that “apparent failure” motivated him. He said it “sends me back to my typewriter… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“We permit a new future to enter the room with these startling encounters. A young boy from Austin, Texas, Charles Black Jr., stood and… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.' — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson later said that there should be a “consilience” between art and science. 79 Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison took selected… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will cheer me… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“In one of our conversations, she told me about Finland’s development of sisu, a rough cognate for grit. Etymologically, sisu denotes a person’s viscera,… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“A rise often falls into the blind spot of vision, and so we tell the stories that I have in this book because we… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“There is no word to describe exactly what the High Line is to the non-architects among us, nor the collective reframing process required to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward.… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist’s print, not logical argument,… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“He told his story through autobiographies that garnered him wide acclaim (and a warrant for his life—as we know, he fled to Britain to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
“It was a truth that Leo Tolstoy declaimed a century or so ago: our response to art has the agency to do what “external… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share
