Incompleat Iconoclast » Quotations http://incompleaticonoclast.com The creative writing blog of Edward F. Gumnick Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Well said http://incompleaticonoclast.com/well-said/ http://incompleaticonoclast.com/well-said/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:42:11 +0000 Edward F. Gumnick http://incompleaticonoclast.com/blog/?p=127 “The role of the social architect recognizes that acting on what matters for one person will happen in concert with those around that person. Individual effort will not be enough. If we do not encourage others to find their own meaning, their own voice, we will never be able to sustain our own.”

—Peter Block, from [...]]]>

“The role of the social architect recognizes that acting on what matters for one person will happen in concert with those around that person. Individual effort will not be enough. If we do not encourage others to find their own meaning, their own voice, we will never be able to sustain our own.”

—Peter Block, from The Answer to
How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
]]> http://incompleaticonoclast.com/well-said/feed/ 0 The Art of Living http://incompleaticonoclast.com/the-art-of-living/ http://incompleaticonoclast.com/the-art-of-living/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:23:35 +0000 Edward F. Gumnick http://incompleaticonoclast.com/blog/?p=20 I ran across the following quotation in May, and it’s been on my mind ever since. How much work (or play) will it take to live up to this standard?

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, [...]]]> I ran across the following quotation in May, and it’s been on my mind ever since. How much work (or play) will it take to live up to this standard?

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”

—James Michener
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