Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
Once the vessel starts to crack open, the end becomes inevitable … But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time what we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs.
-Quentin Jacobsen
Do the cracks start forming as soon as were born?
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 302
Things generally don’t happen like you imagined they would—but if you don’t imagine, things generally don’t happen.
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 299
Everyone searches for opportunities while running from problems, missing that they're the same thing.
Problems aren't obstacles to opportunity, they ARE the opportunity.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #652
…we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way we are—we idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
-Connie Jacobsen
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 198
We have the power to adapt to change, and we have the power to give form to our future
-Bjarke Ingels
from TED Talk
Property is a trust to be enlarged for future generations.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
from Hetty Green
When you try to do too much, you never get anywhere. Focus.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
YES!
from Hetty Green
Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
When you finally make it to the top, turn around and help someone else climb.
-Dion McNeeley, divorced single dad with three kids who started with his house as a rental and now has 18 rentals