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“Best practices suggest that the ideal routines are already in place. If we want people to keep rethinking the way they work, we might be better off adopting process accountability and continually striving for better practices.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Everyone was agreed that the master looked energetic and youthful—sixty rather than eighty. “He provides striking evidence,” wrote Alexandre, “of the inanity of what used to be called the age limit.”
― Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

“The story may also have drawn on comments by the Japanese artist Hokusai, who in old age (he lived to eighty-nine) signed his works “The Old Man Mad About Painting.” “I have drawn things since I was six,” Hokusai supposedly reported. “All that I made before the age of sixty-five is not worth counting. At seventy-three I began to understand the true constructions of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects. At ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred I shall certainly have reached a magnificent level. And when I am a hundred and ten, everything—every dot, every dash—will live.”
― Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

“My dear Sir, I think you isolate yourself too much, and a stay of about a week in Paris, in the midst of friends who love you, would dispel your little troubles.”7”
― Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies