{"id":743,"date":"2011-08-24T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/?p=743"},"modified":"2011-08-21T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T20:53:01","slug":"an-artful-grace-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/08\/an-artful-grace-for-wednesday.html","title":{"rendered":"An Artful Grace for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer’s night.\u00a0 – Friedrich Nietzsche –<\/p>\n

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.\u00a0 – Will Durant –<\/p>\n

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. – Captain Beefheart –<\/p>\n

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.\u00a0 It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.\u00a0 You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.\u00a0 – Ray Bradbury – ( and we give “Yoda” credit for this concept!)<\/p>\n

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer’s night.\u00a0 – Friedrich Nietzsche – The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.\u00a0 – Will Durant – I think people have had too much to think and ought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[385,390,387,386,391,389,357,384,388],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-joys","tag-artful-grace","tag-captain-beefheart","tag-friedrich-nietzsche","tag-life-as-art","tag-quotes-on-thinking","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-uplifting-quotes","tag-wednesday","tag-william-james"],"yoast_head":"\nAn Artful Grace for Wednesday - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/08\/an-artful-grace-for-wednesday.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Artful Grace for Wednesday - 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