Robert L. Peters

1 June 2014

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

—Milton Berle (1908-2002)


28 May 2014

It’s all done already… it just needs to be made.

Erik_Spiekermann_plan_for_the_future

Erik Spiekermann’s “plan for the future.”


26 May 2014

60.

It takes a while to get like this… apparently I’m a sexegenarian now. (-:


25 May 2014

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and we trouble our death by thoughts about life.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)


24 May 2014

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971)


23 May 2014

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil (1909-1943)


21 May 2014

I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)


19 May 2014

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

—Voltaire


18 May 2014

If it cannot be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned, or removed from production.

Pete Seeger (1919-2014)


17 May 2014

Nobody would be poor if everyone tried to be poorest.

—Peter Maurin (Easy Essays, 2003, p.37)

Thanks to Aiden Enns for the quotable.


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