Mindfulness & Wisdom
WALTER ISAACSON
... See moreRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you
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 more
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Topicality is wicked, deeply so. “Fresh” information is a tool of the selfish classes (and be sure there’s a diversity of type) to keep the individual anesthetized, to keep one suspended in a vat of phony immediacy and specious solidarity — the addiction to being informed.
Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing fres... See more
Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing fres... See more
“But there is a counter measure to this selfishly motivated, transcendental topicality: PATIENCE. Composure, restraint, and a commitment to one’s own long term well being, is like a lead shield to their hyperbolic information system; a thorough interrupter to their insistent momentum.”
Cargo brilliance
David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Peter Cundill on the power of perspective:
“I think it may be easier to see solutions if you can distinguish between context and content. If you can place a problem within the framework of the larger universe its dimensions are put into perspective and automatically diminished.”
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.