“I used to think that only stupid people could love each other this much.”
—J. Isbell
June 2013
1 post
May 2013
8 posts
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”
—J. Tworkowski
“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
—W. Durrant
“A man who will not die for something is not fit to live.”
—M.L.K. Jr.
“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.”
—S. Gautama
“By now, virtually all media, architecture, product and graphic design have been freed from ideas, individual passion, and have been relegated to a role of corporate servitude, carrying out corporate strategies and increasing stock prices. Creative people are now working for the bottom line.”
—T. Kalman
“My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.”
—V. Nabokov
“There is no perfection. There is precision, there is accuracy. But no perfection.”
—R. Ikeda
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
—C. Bukowski
April 2013
8 posts
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
—L. Turner
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
—F. Kafka
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
—C. Lispector
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
—E. Hemingway
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, its time to pause and reflect.”
—M. Twain
“There’s a beast in every man, and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.”
—J. Mormont
“Remember sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
—D. Lama
“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
—R. Ebert
February 2013
4 posts
“Extra-Rational Motivation:
1. The Thrill for Competition
2. The Desire for Adventure
3. The Joy of Creation
4. The Satisfaction of Team Building
5. The Desire to Achieve Meaning in Life.” —J. Steiner
1. The Thrill for Competition
2. The Desire for Adventure
3. The Joy of Creation
4. The Satisfaction of Team Building
5. The Desire to Achieve Meaning in Life.” —J. Steiner
“Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don’t let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.”
—J. Bingham
“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
—M. D.Montaigne
“A goal without a plan is just… A wish.”
—A. St-Exupery
January 2013
2 posts
“When your mission is based around creating customer value, around creating great products, cannibalization and disruption aren’t “bad things” to be avoided. They’re things you actually strive for — because they let you improve the outcome for your customer.”
—J. Allworth
“I’ve learned that the first step in forming any team is to resolve the most basic challenge: getting folks to take the big step away from just being themselves (the thing we all know best) and joining something larger (the thing we fear may let us down).”
—J. Maeda
December 2012
9 posts
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
—E. Hemmingway
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
—N. Tyson
“You can only lose what you cling to.”
—Buddha
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
—E. Hemmingway
“The obstacle is the path.”
—Zen Proverb
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
—B. Davis
“You see, I believe that bad jobs are like degenerative diseases, they slowly, slowly eat away at what makes you unique and ultimately human. A truly bad job strips a person of their dignity, which strips them of their will, which keeps them in said bad job. So I looked into that glass of whiskey and told myself that I would try and cash the checks that I had written to my future.”
—J. Nord
“Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.”
—B. Doyle
“Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again…”
—F. Nietzsche
November 2012
17 posts
“We’re born to die. Our remains seep into the water and soil and feed the trees.”
—M.Z. Seitz
“Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.”
—N. Maharaj
“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
—B. Franklin
“All that we send into the lives of others. Comes back into our own.”
—E. Markham
“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
—A. Bourdain
“Develop interest in life as you see it, in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
—H. Miller
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
—J.D. Salinger
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
—J. Green
“What music is to the spirit, reading is to the mind. Reading challenges, empowers, bewitches, enriches. We perceive little black marks on white paper or a PC screen and they move us to tears, open up our lives to new insights and understandings, inspire us, organize our existences and connect us with all creation.”
—S. Fischer
“After a certain age, any new friends we make in an attempt to replace the ones we’ve lost are like glass eyes, glass teeth and wooden legs.”
—N. de Chamfort.
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
—H. Murakami
“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
—Homer
“We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and forever will be, the United States of America.”
—B.O.
“Close your eyes & imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”
—C. Assaad
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
—R.W. Emerson
“The plan is useless but planning is essential.”
—D.D. Eisenhower
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
—A. Camus
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
—M. Aurelius
