A wise woman one asked me: “What are you willing to give up in order to have the life that you really want?” I said, “Wow, I guess I have to say no to things I don’t want to do.” And she said, “No, you have to say no to things you do want to do — that party on Saturday night that you really want to go to, that television series that you’re obsessed with … you’re not doing that anymore.”
No One Is Too Busy to Be Creative 9:36pm on December 31, 2015Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Quote by Plato: “Wise men speak because they have something to s…” 10:26pm on December 29, 2015Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Quote by Jean Cocteau: “Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” 11:05pm on December 25, 2015A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Quote by Jean Cocteau : “A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor…” 11:04pm on December 25, 2015If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Quote by T.S. Eliot: “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you kno…” 11:03pm on December 25, 2015To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
Quote by T.S. Eliot: “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous t…” 11:02pm on December 25, 2015Consider these words that you are reading – where did they come from? What about the language they are written in? What about the shape of the letters themselves? What about the font? If you are sitting in a chair, who designed that chair? Or the floor on which it sits? Think about the recipes of the food you eat or the music you listen to. The world we actually live in is made of ideas that have left human minds and entered the physical world. Indeed, the story of our evolution is essentially the story of us retreating from the natural world into the mental one.
Ben Pieratt, Blog – Consider these words that you are reading – where… 12:57pm on December 9, 2015How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words
get it all wrong.
It’s the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
The hero in your life is never going to be the person who pats you on the head: it’s going to be the person who puts their own need to be liked aside to make you a better designer.
Why is so much of design school a waste of time? — Dear Design Student — Medium 3:23pm on November 10, 2015Hopefully, we are more than everybody can see.
Jurgen Klopp opens up about life, religion, parenthood and football in Liverpool – Mirror Online 3:39pm on October 31, 2015You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist?” And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.
Goodreads | Quote by Junot Díaz: “You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampi…” 2:33pm on October 28, 2015The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?” And he’ll look stunned and say, “How did you know?” He doesn’t realize something’s always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one thing. He doesn’t know everybody’s always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they’re exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing’s ever wrong, from seeing it.
Goodreads | Quote by David Foster Wallace: “The next suitable person you’re in light conver…” 6:12pm on October 23, 2015There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?
Goodreads | Quote by David Foster Wallace: “There are these two young fish swimming along a…” 6:12pm on October 23, 2015Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
Goodreads | Quote by David Foster Wallace: “Whatever you get paid attention for is never wh…” 6:12pm on October 23, 2015What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
Goodreads | Quote by David Foster Wallace: “What passes for hip cynical transcendence of se…” 6:11pm on October 23, 2015You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
Goodreads | Quote by David Foster Wallace: “You will become way less concerned with what ot…” 6:11pm on October 23, 2015Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
Goodreads | Quote by David Foster Wallace: “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken…” 6:11pm on October 23, 2015All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Goodreads | Bertolt Brecht Quotes (Author of Mother Courage and Her Children) 11:05pm on October 18, 2015The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
Bertolt Brecht: “The human race tends to remember the abuses to …” 10:55pm on October 18, 2015