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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Taxing my mind a bit

"You must always work not just within but below your means If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve." --Pablo Picasso

This came to me as such an engrossing point of view. It seems so contradictory to what advise people are usually given. And while it seems contrary to the norm, it also appears in some respects to be sound advise.

2 comments:

Lucindyl said...

This is going in both my quote journal and my regular journal, pronto. I've found this to be very, very true, but living in accordance is tremendously difficult in this go-go-go, do-do-do society (especially if one is prone to be plagued by guilt whether justifiably so or not).

Living at one's limit is overrated.

Michael A. Wells said...

Wow, two journals going at at once?