Quotes
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect thi
... See moreA principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
Only dead fish go with the flow.
-David Ogilvy
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso
"The prize for doing great work is that you get to do more of it."
“If Tetris has taught me anything. It's that in life, errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.” -@GameModJr
The people who become legendary in their interests never feel they have arrived.
Kevin Kelly