February 2012
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...
– Steve Jobs
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The best way to get approval is not to need it.
This is equally true in art...
– Hugh Macleod
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In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not.
– Yogi Berra (via amore-semper)
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be...
– Epictetus
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the...
– Immanuel Kant
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When you are focused there is no clock!
– Larry Zogby
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
– Voltaire
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...
– Albert Einstein
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I wrote a bit of a reading guide for Emerson's... →
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Much is valued more highly than lige itself by the living; but out of the...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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But wherever I found the living, there too I heard the language of obedience....
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Don’t take yourself too seriously, or you’ll start believing your...
– Elon Musk (PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX)
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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
– Amy Dacyczyn
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Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I’ll ever know
Live and...
– Poem from the movie The Grey
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by play.
– Carl Jung
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...
– Anais Nin
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Why I think you should kill your Dream →
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In my work I examine the America we live in, and I’ve always tried to show...
– Marilyn Manson (via kaylathehun)
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not...
– Steve Jobs (pg 190 of Isaacson bio)
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Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really...
– Steve Jobs, from Walter Isaacson’s bio of him page 190
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The higher we fly, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
– G.C. Lichtenberg
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Every conquest, every step forward in knowledge is the outcome of courage, of...
– Friedrich Nietszche
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
– Voltaire
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I...
– Robert A. Heinlein (via abutterflychase)
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One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live among people...
– Wade Davis
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They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely—your...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first...
– Ernest Hemingway
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I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish academy just...
– Richard Feynman, from Brain Pickings
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the...
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Wherever a culture sees evil it reveals its fear and its weakness.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise...
– Montaigne
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to...
– Oscar Wilde
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The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it is when...
– Anon
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Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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