The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
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We can try, but we cannot organize the stars. We can only simplify.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
241 followers · 3085 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Trying things is the answer to your talent. — Howard Finster

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
241 followers · 3076 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
"

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
240 followers · 3040 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

There are always multiple paths to the thing you want to make. There is never just one.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
239 followers · 3019 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

You cannot make it perfect. Why would you even try?

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
235 followers · 2965 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Making the Thing That Is Not is just connecting the dots — only you have to draw them. And also number them.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
230 followers · 2896 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Trying things is the answer to your talent. — Howard Finster

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
224 followers · 2806 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
221 followers · 2785 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
215 followers · 2719 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
"

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
209 followers · 2645 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.39

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
199 followers · 2554 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

We can try, but we cannot organize the stars. We can only simplify.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
199 followers · 2546 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

All those words — surely one of them is yours.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
196 followers · 2501 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

TAKING THE PATH: You have to walk the labyrinth, take the trip, do the work, risk the change in your work — and in yourself — in order to . (p. 79)

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
196 followers · 2492 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
195 followers · 2481 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

TAKING THE PATH: You have to walk the labyrinth, take the trip, do the work, risk the change in your work — and in yourself — in order to . (p. 79)

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
195 followers · 2478 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

You have hundreds of excuses not to make the that thing you want to make. Do not use them.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
195 followers · 2443 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

No matter how well-engineered our lives may be, actual growth and blooming and change always happen within us.

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The Lichtenbergian · @Lichtenbergian
195 followers · 2425 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Making the Thing That Is Not — music, art, dance, cocktails — is built in to every human. So pick up that clari-flute and get to jamming!

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