Elena
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@elena
āConfidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.ā
-Kevin Ashton
... See moreSome periods of our growth are so confusing that we donāt even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larg
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
āJorge Wagensberg
Reconciling opposites in various aspects of life, such as freedom-order, individual-society, and rationality-sentiment, is explored through various perspectives and philosophical ideas.
The fastest decisions Iāve ever made are ones where I was confident in my taste; the slowest decisions Iāve made (or have yet to make) are ones where I question it. (And the latter tends to be a symptom of trying to overintellectualize my taste, to compare it to othersā taste, to judge my own taste ā which defeats its purpose.)
from Eileen Myles:
I hope thereās mystery and poetry in your lifeānot even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise
... See moreāI donāt think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but donāt yet know how, donāt yet feel strong enough, donāt yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, donāt be disheartened, donāt give up. Youāve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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