Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Duke Ellington

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: David Foster Wallace

It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the milennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s maybe the vestiges of the Romantic Weltschmerz, which means world-weariness or hip ennui. Maybe it’s the fact that most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on how to be cool, hip–and keep in mind that, for kids and younger people, to be hip and cool is the same as to be admired and accepted and included and so Unalone. Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Sir Ken Robinson

My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of Do It Yourself.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: David Ogilvy

First: Make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second: Surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third: Leave them to go get on with it.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Lewis Mumford

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Stephen Hawking

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined--and that we can do nothing to change it--look before they cross the road.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Chuck Palahniuk

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

Your Daily Insight // As Told By: Allen Ginsberg

The fact to which we have got to cling--as to a lifebelt--is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet, be fully alive.