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“What it takes for someone to stand his ground when he is scared to death is an act of faith. Faith is an act of surrender, not to the challenge, but to the spirit in whom we put our trust to face the challenge with us and to take care of us no matter the outcome.”
-Peter Dunne (Emotional Structure)
“Plot is what happens. Story is what it does to the who it happens to.”
“The work of the plot is to offer situations in which the story can be told. The work of the story is to give value and meaning to the plot.”
-Peter Dunne (Emotional Structure)
If you’re only worried about not making a mistake, then you will communicate nothing. You’ll have missed the point of making music, which is to make people feel something.
-Yo-Yo Ma
(Quoted by Jonah Lehrer in “Imagine; How Creativity Works”)
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like a fancy dress.
-Katherine Paterson
I use one of those fetal computers.
It’s not that it’s too small or too underdeveloped – necessarily.
I call it that because I have to assume the fetal position to use it.
A seed died today because I didn’t catch it.
Concepts dancing in scintillating constellations;
Juxtaposed, intercalated, and alloyed in new ways.
I, in my hurry, saw the beauty and perfection
Of their new arrangement;
And marveled at the system of their members,
And yet failed to write anything down.
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