George Leonard
George Leonard
George Burr Leonardwas an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. He was President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, President of ITP International, and a former editor of Look Magazine. He was a former United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth degree black belt in aikido...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth3 July 1729
CountryUnited States of America
At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.
To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
To learn is to change.
Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.
What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.
Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.
Practice is the path of mastery.
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.
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.