manifestor [human design type]
Once you see yourself as merely a junction point for a whole set of influences, from your parents to your teachers to the feeds you follow and the articles and books you read, you can relax about being ‘you’. You can focus, instead, on making your influence-set as unique, layered and rich as possible. Nobody else will be at your junction point.
Ian Leslie • How To Be Influenced
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen
What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism: So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say.
~ Gilles Deleuze
The first comes from French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard:
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (October 17, 2019) | James Clear
