“Taking notes like sketching, sharpens the mind, hones it in into a more sensitive and receptive instrument, more ready when needed than one that is allowed to “flow with the tide”. It can be the difference between being a a reactor or an actor. The reactor drifts along awaiting opportunities from others before making a move. The actor checks his notes and comes up with a positive move of his own. Most, if not all, artists, composers, authors, scientists, etc. have been and are avid note takers and sketchers.”
Walt Stanchfield
Thank you, Enrico, for posting these notes on notes and sketches.
He is so right in the things he wrote!
Just when I closed these pages I came up these thoughts in my blog …
… it’s not only reacting and acting, I spoke to myself. It’s more or less a change of letters and so a change of words: what do you think comes up, if you shuffle the letters of the words ‘reaction’ or “reacting’ 🙂 Take a guess and find one solution here 🙂
http://peterpencil.blogspot.com/2006/03/reacting-creating.html