quotes
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
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“The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.” — Goethe
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
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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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“For every good idea that comes out of you, you need ten good ideas coming into you. And that’s up to you to ensure that you continuously fill yourself up with fresh knowledge and information and impressions so that one thing can come out.” — René Redzepi
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
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"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver
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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
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“The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.”
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
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dickens
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“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”
—Jason Mraz
@ Carnegie Hall
November 23, 2011
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