I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
Interpretation
Embracing uncertainty can reveal new opportunities and insights.
This quote emphasizes the importance of viewing challenging or chaotic situations as chances for growth and discovery. When things seem disordered or 'upside down,' we are often compelled to see beyond the conventional perspectives, thus uncovering possibilities and truths that would otherwise remain hidden.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing challenges with a project, this quote can encourage creative thinking.
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Each person has a literature inside them.
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is a near-death experience.
All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.
The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
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