“We have heard the stories: Duke Ellington would say, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”… — Sarah Lewis Fred astaire Copy Share Image
“You reach a point where you’re at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your… — Sarah Lewis Nature Copy Share Image
“It is embedded so deeply in the private lives of our more public shifts that we can forget it is there until… — Sarah Lewis Books Copy Share Image
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman… — Sarah Lewis Aim Copy Share Image
“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil… — Sarah Lewis Chinese culture Copy Share Image
“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness… — Sarah Lewis Art Copy Share Image
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp. — Sarah Lewis Audacious Copy Share Image
“The course of our lives, Douglass argued, resembles “a thousand arrows shot from the same point and aimed at the same object.”… — Sarah Lewis Vision Copy Share Image
“The moment we designate the used or maligned as a state with generative capacity, our reality expands. President John F. Kennedy once… — Sarah Lewis Failure Copy Share Image
“If we fail to cultivate grit, it is also because we often grant little importance to the practice of making and the… — Sarah Lewis Innovation Copy Share Image
“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. —REBECCA SOLNIT” — Sarah Lewis Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Geim’s perspective, blunt as you like, is that it’s “better to be wrong than be boring,” so he lets those working on… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
