The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List |
Quotation of the Day for August 18, 2011"Robertson Davies, the Canadian author, said one of the most important things in his life was being able to take a nap every day after lunch for twenty minutes. That's for two reasons. One is that by developing a schedule that's under your control, you are not being flogged around by life, as he puts it; you are not always jumping to someone else's tune. You develop your own rhythm of work and rest. The other thing is that it's during idle time that ideas have a chance to recombine in new ways, because if we think consciously about solving a problem or writing a book, then we are sitting there forcing our ideas to move in a lockstep, in a straight line, and probably what comes out is not very new or original. "For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. So they find their way, their random combinations that are driven by forces we don't know about. It's through this recombination that something new may come up, not when we try to push them directly." - Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, interviewed by Michael Toms in the New Dimensions newsletter. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Aug. 13, 2011  |
| Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog | Find Robertson Davies  at Amazon.ca. Visit our Amazon.ca store | Find Robertson Davies  at Amazon.com. Visit our Amazon.com store |
