“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil from handling) in Chinese culture or the Japanese concept of nare that garners a reverence over “shallow brilliance,”… — 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 Image
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.' — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
