Andrew Hargadon quotes

“Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?”
-- Andrew Hargadon

#Letting Go Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

Source : Adele Parks (2012). “Young Wives' Tales”, p.374, Hachette UK

“Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.”

“True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.”

“There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.”

“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.”

“There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.”

“We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.”

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

“I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.”