Random Quotes

“The best economic indicator is how well the bottom 30% are doing in the super market, not how well the 1% are doing in the stock market.” – Dave Young 

“You don’t have the ingredients to bake that cake.” – Roy H. Williams 

 “Fear arises when we imagine everything depends on us.” – Elisabeth Elliot 

“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.” – Daniel Webster

[Hence why Sabbath is needed.] 

“Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions.”

“If the cross is the sign of anything, it’s the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world’s problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can’t do a thing about the world’s problems – that it never did work and it never will.” – Robert F. Capon

Painter and Visual Artist Chuck Close on Inspiration

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. 

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.

Source: James Clear's 3-2-1 Newsletter for February 15, 2024, which, in turn, quoted Interview (March 2007).