The Real Work Quotes

“Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.”
― Adam Gopnik, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

“By “timeless” in that sense, we don’t mean outside time. We mean in two times at once: ours and theirs.”
― Adam Gopnik, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

“The essential experience of art—one of them, anyway—is the sense of one time speaking to another.”
― Adam Gopnik, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery