February 2013
3 posts
“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment...”
– Malcolm Gladwell
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to...”
– Bill Cosby
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin
January 2013
2 posts
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just...”
– Aaron Swartz
“If you have ever struggled in life, feeling grateful comes easy.”
– David O. Russell
November 2012
6 posts
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a...”
– Unknown
“If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life...”
– Allan Watts
“Don’t let other people’s ideas of success and good or meaningful work filter...”
– Maria Popova
“I truly, truly believe that our first responsibility is to ourselves—to be true...”
– Maria Popova
“It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply...”
– William Butler Yeats
October 2012
1 post
“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of...”
– Ping Fu’s “Shanghai Papa”
July 2012
1 post
June 2012
8 posts
“You should have a healthy disregard for the impossible.”
– Larry Page
“Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you...”
– Ray Bradbury
“An expert is a man who has stopped thinking because ‘he knows.’”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“The guy that invented the ship also invented the shipwreck.”
– Paul Verillo
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
“There are thousands of paths. They all lead nowhere. You must ask yourself one...”
– Don Juan
“There’s only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
May 2012
8 posts
“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don’t know the plan, you...”
– Oprah Winfrey
“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people...”
– Kathryn Schulz
“If your work is filled with the hope and longing for applause, it’s no longer...”
– Seth Godin
Watch“Never let anyone define the parameters of who you are.”
“You’re never too old to become younger.”
– Mae West
“A labor of love always pays off!”
– Scott Belsky
“We can get closer to the wisdom of other people by having them explain their...”
– Highlighted by Aarron Walter in The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
“Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two… Work...”
– Orson Wells
April 2012
9 posts
“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets...”
– John Steinbeck on falling in love. (via aarronwalter)
“In our culture, not to know is to be at fault socially… People pretend to know...”
– Sir Ken Robinson
“It’s hard to have original ideas when you are surrounded by people who all have...”
– Jonathan Harris
“Intuition is a very powerful thing—more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.”
– Steve Jobs
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to...”
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mythologiques
“‘Keeping it real’ is a trap.”
– Toure, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?
March 2012
13 posts
“Be anyone you want at any time.”
– Touré, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
“To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but...”
– Paul Graham
“Be nice. (The world is a small town.)”
– Austin Kleon
“Lots of people have talent, but it’s the hard work that sets you apart.”
– Bob Croslin
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...”
– Thomas Edison
“The best way to get approval is not to need it.
This is equally true in art...”
– Hugh MacLeod
“The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to...”
– Hugh MacLeod
“We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re...”
– Alain de Botton
“What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond...”
– Paul Graham
“Find something more important than you are, and dedicate your life to it.”
– Dan Dennett 