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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
Julian Paul added 3mo ago
The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers"
-Kahlil Gibran
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
-Bonnie Friedman
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
“I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.” Sasha Chapin
Julian Paul added 5mo ago
Jerry Seinfeld:
"You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be delayed five years, Fine."
Julian Paul added 5mo ago
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