Quotes by Roland Allen

“Leonardo knew that the best way to look at something analytically is to draw it. Water fascinated him, so he drew”

“And take a note… with slight strokes in a little book that you should always carry with you… preserved with great care; for the forms, and positions of objects are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, wherefore keep these sketches as your guides and masters.”

“People who are under stress, who are worried about stuff – that’s taking up their working memory,’ he tells me. ‘They’re not paying attention to what they’re doing, where they are going, so they’re more likely to have injuries, or do poorly on tests, and so forth.”