quotes
by réka · updated 7d ago
quotes
- “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
from The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To by Billy Oppenheimer
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“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”
—Jason Mraz
@ Carnegie Hall
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from Home | Substack by Substack
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- Swiss psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz called the "provisional life." ("There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that... [but] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about.")
from What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman by Oliver Burkeman
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quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl
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- Grow your own flowers and give them away to everyone you meet. You’re right: the earth is not very fertile, people are not always grateful, flowers eventually die. But do you still see the point of it all? Do you see the beauty of the gesture?
from Everyone is numbing out by Catherine Shannon
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- “The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.” — Goethe
from The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To by Billy Oppenheimer
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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
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