Chuck Close Quote 1

Kaushik — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:56:08 +0000

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

Chuck Close of Wisdom (Courtesy: We are the digital kids)

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Kaushik — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:14:03 +0000

“… They tried to have that conversation with us a number of times,” says someone from Apple who was in the meetings. We consistently said “No, we are not going to mess up the consumer experience on the iPhone to make your network tenable.” They’d always end up saying, “We’re going to have to escalate this to senior AT&T executives,” and we always said, “Fine, we’ll escalate it to Steve and see who wins.”

When an AT&T representative suggested to one of Jobs’ deputies that the Apple CEO wear a suit to meet with AT&T’s board of directors, he was told, “We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.”

Apple

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