"Ideas are like confetti. Toss them in the air and run underneath!"
(via his
interview in The Paris Review)
"Ideas are like confetti. Toss them in the air and run underneath!"
(via his
interview in The Paris Review)
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"Writing becomes your own temple. You just move in and make sure everything flows and the right divinities are in effect."
-- DJ Spooky (in his wonderful book Rhythm Science).
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“I wish for these young artists what I wish for all of us: a cool head in a crisis; a knack of lateral thinking; grace under pressure; and a sackful of good luck. We will need all of them.”
--Margaret Atwood (speaking at Davos this past week).
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"When everybody does better, everybody does better."
--Jim Hightower (whose daily commentary is thankfully now available as a podcast)
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"The day is short and the work is great. The labors are sluggish, the wages abundant and the master is demanding.
It is not necessary for you to complete the work but neither are you free to desist from it."
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"Creating is the lion taming of the unexpected."
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"There are a limited number of types of people in the world, and you went to high school with every single one of them."
-- P.J. O'Rourke (via The Writer's Almanac).
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"We are perishing not for lack of wonder but for lack of wonder."
--G.K. Chesterton (via Rory Sutherland).
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"There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way."
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