Monday, April 29, 2013

Crazy, Truth, Morals

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.
~ Apple, Inc.

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Expression, Messy, Crispiness

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for
it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.
~ Friedrich Froebel, "Father" of modem kindergarten

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one
another from day to day - even hour to hour.
~ Elizabeth Moon

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes
when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
~ Frank Duff

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Creative play, Liars, Phones

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free
to be creative.
~ D.W. Winnicott

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
~ Nick Diamos

All phone calls are obscene.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Monday, April 8, 2013

Meaning, More, Philosophers

All play means something. It goes beyond the confines of purely
physical or purely biological activity. It is a significant
function-that is to say, there is some sense to it.
~ Johan Huizinga, cultural historian

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
~ Bill Hoest

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for
science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and
probably wrong.
~ Richard Feynman