Reminders for myself
So this is the one piece of advice I give everyone who will listen: Start something just to make your life more exciting . It doesn’t matter how small it starts (or stays). Personal projects are a vehicle to explore the things that interest you. I've always seen brands as a kind of wrapper for all the things I love in life. Sometimes they never gra... See more
Start something of your own ☼ Vintage Versace exhibition ☼ Experimental restaurant design
Talvez seja um pouco disso que Kierkegaard pensou, quando disse que ser sujeito é ser capaz de realizar uma tarefa suprema, integrar em uma síntese o finito e o infinito, a alma e o corpo, um instante e a eternidade . Permitir que essa premissa, de que o infinito habita o finito, volte a pulsar em nossa existência, é uma reconexão com uma dimensão eterna do humano, que ainda vive, ainda respira, ainda espera por nós, e que pode transformar, de forma radical, a maneira como nos relacionamos com a vida.
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Even in the whorl of our own personal tragedies, when the cosmos appears at its most chaotic and impartial, I have come to see the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning.
NICK CAVE • Subscribe to The Red Hand Files
“ People think resilience and success come from getting to ‘knowing’ as soon as possible. They’re wrong. Resilience and success come from the length of time you can tolerate being in the Learning Space. What I think is very empowering to know, is that the Learning Space [the space between ‘not knowing’ and ‘knowing’] has one feeling associated with... See more
Carina • Be where you are
There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. And it is then, perhaps, that a subtle truth begins to emerge: the only thing we truly possess, the only thing we might, with enough care, exert some mastery over, is our min... See more
Bill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
There is beauty in something well-made. The fine fit of a tailored suit. The delicate stitching of a vibrant rug. The mechanical elegance of a well-tuned watch, ticking silently. The same aesthetic laws that govern these objects – and innumerable others – apply to the business world, too. There is such a thing as a beautiful, elegant business. Not ... See more