Polojko's Blog! – Page 12 – "The only person you can't learn from is yourself"

Suffering

If the instrument is suffering, no amount of technical virtuosity can compensate for that.

Most of humanity’s problems are created by people without a sense of humor.

More lazy than usual today. That’s hard to achieve.

Having to point out that something is sarcasm reveals a great deal about contemporary civilization.

The more I try to learn Greek, the more I’m convinced that there are no rules. They make it up on the spot, just to confuse poor tourists.

Conformity: wanting to do/be equal to or better than one’s peers.

That’s the point of art: it’s open to interpretation. Most people don’t understand this.

Education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents.

– Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk

Only nature produces; humans just transform.