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- It’s time in my life to make fewer arguments for things and do more sitting down with things to just experience them. ‘I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt,’ is how Namwali Serpell’s latest novel, Furrows, begins. It is also one way of summarizing how the current shift in my personal character is changing my writin... See more
from Interview with Nigerian author, Immaculata Abba | The Republic by Immaculata Abba
- I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see, but I’ve noticed recently that there seem to be two core approaches people take to establishing trust in communication. Call them “truth-seeking” and “community-seeking.” Most people seem to have a dominant social mode in which they operate basi... See more
from Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
- Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.”
Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.
When talent doesn’t hustle, hustle beats talent. But when talent hustles, watch out.
When you work only for money, without any love for what you do in and of itself, your work will lac... See morefrom 101 Design Rules by wearecollins.com
Fulfilling work and Whoa
- People think there’s no way that you could have succeeded unless you are faking it. And sometimes I want to tell them, ‘No, the ingredient you’re missing is God.’
from Akwaeke Emezi Won’t Tell You How to Feel
- Knowing I should be held not as meteors are discovered:
long after their time, funneled by obsolescence
but fondled as ribbons in the sky do each other:
stretching a graze to an entanglement, whatever which way the wind blows.from Sasha Fierce asks ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’ - Lunch Ticket
- And the minute that you understand that you can poke life, and actually something will, you know, if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it. You can mold it.
from Interview with Cameron Burgess, Product Designer at Software Applications Incorporated
- “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”
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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedyfrom A quote from The Divine Comedy
- All my friends are finding new beliefs.
This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees.from All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs by Christian… | Poetry Magazine