Elena
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Elena
... See moreSome periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t 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
- "The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury
- “The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way” – Steven Bartlett
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
on doing work that matters and (re)defining "work" & productivity
“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”
-Kevin AshtonCuando los botánicos recorren los bosques y los prados en busca de plantas, decimos que salen de excursión. Cuando lo hacen los escritores, esa excursión es por las metáforas, que también abundan en la tierra.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
- "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert applies to every creative project
taste and creating a point of view and it's the context, stupid
- "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." - Ray Bradbury
Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
The fastest decisions I’ve ever made are ones where I was confident in my taste; the slowest decisions I’ve 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 others’ taste, to judge my own taste — which defeats its purpose.)