Vincent van Gogh once said, “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” Let’s hear Mike Fink’s reflections on the value of all things small. Mike Fink is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Mike Fink
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This I Believe New England – Paper and Pen
When’s the last time you took an actual pen to actual paper for a time-consuming writing task, as opposed to tapping your fingers rhythmically on your computer’s keyboard? For so many of us, writing our lofty prose or mundane work tasks in longhand, whether with an inexpensive ballpoint pen, a mechanical pencil, or a luxury fountain […]
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This I Believe New England – Books
Books can, and do, change lives. Now there’s a sentence that seems so obvious it’s hardly worth saying. But it is worth saying. Many of us can remember a time when we strolled around a library, scanning the shelves casually for sideway words on a spine that caught our eye and whose insides caught our minds and our […]
