67 Quotes by George Leonard

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

Practice is the path of mastery.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.