Quotes on It Is What It Is

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.