I am still learning. (at age 87)
Interpretation
Lifelong learning is essential, regardless of age.
This quote by Michelangelo emphasizes that the pursuit of knowledge and personal growth does not stop with age or achievement. Even at 87, he acknowledges that there is always more to learn, highlighting the importance of humility and continuous self-improvement throughout one's life.
In practice
In a speech about lifelong learning to motivate seniors.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Iβve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.
probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
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