“God walks out of the room when you’re thinking about money.”

Job titles aren’t really for you, they’re for others. Let other people worry about them. Burn your business cards if you have to.

“What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”

When the video-game artist Peter Chan was young, he loved to draw, but he would crumple up his “bad” drawings in fits of frustration. His father convinced him that if he laid the “bad” drawings flat instead of crumpling them up, he could fit more of them in the wastebasket. After his father died, Chan found a folder labeled “Peter” in his father’s

“Solvitur ambulando,” said Diogenes the Cynic

“For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info you need.”

If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to. “We give things meaning by paying attention to them,” Jessa Crispin writes, “and so moving your attention from one thing to another can absolutely change your future.” “Attention is the most basic form of love,” wrote John Tarrant. When you pay attention to your life, it not only pr

Yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, there’s just today and what you can do with it.

“Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads and idiots and movie stars.” —Dorothea Tanning