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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
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The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan
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Tippett:
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
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Hay que salir a observarlo todo, no una cosa específica, porque si no, al buscar eso, se pierde uno de lo otro; el gran observador, el que posee asombrosos poderes de observación, es el que encuentra lo que no estaba buscando.
Jordi Soler • Mapa secreto del bosque (Spanish Edition)
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Confieso que no sé qué pueda ser, pero la contemplación de las estrellas siempre me hace soñar, tan simplemente como me hacen soñar los puntos negros que representan en los mapas las ciudades y los pueblos. ¿Por qué, me pregunto, los puntos luminosos del firmamento habrían de sernos menos accesibles que los puntos negros en el mapa de Francia?
Vincent van Gogh • Carta a Théo (La noche estrellada)
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“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
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