Of any thing ask, 'what is it's nature'?: Duck Soup: The Marx Brothers

Abject delight...ingenuity...poetry...just funny.

Boldness

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

Whatever you can do, or dream, you can begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Begin it now."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words...thoughts...thingies

The answer to any problem is back in the subject matter. Understand the 'nature' of the problem and you are nearly there.
Me via Marcus Aurelius, Hannibal Lecter & Ed Gaze

Elimination is the point of departure.
A.G.Fronzoni

The liberating power of constraint.
P.D.James

The idea is to give the client not what he wants, but what he never dreampt he wanted.
Alan Fletcher

You can't create unless you're willing to subordinate the creative impulse to the constriction of form.
Anthony Burgess

Simple is better than complicated.
Quiet is better than noisey.
What is close at hand is better than what has to be sought.
Dieter Rams

Do be do, do-be, do be do be do, do-be
Gene Kelly

Of any thing ask, 'what is it's nature'?

Friday, October 2, 2009

Duck Soup: The Marx Brothers

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