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- “Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.”
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Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time - Jean-Michel Basquiat
When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently.
from Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble.
from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
We wouldn’t be alive without love; we wouldn’t have survived without running; maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
If you take a narrative view, there are different things to accomplish at different stages of life. Dating and having these passionate flings are perfect when you’re younger, but some of the greatest joys of life come from nurturing and from what’s called “generativity.” People have strong strivings to build something, to do something, to leave som
... See morefrom Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
“Going to the verge of war without actually getting into war is the necessary art,”
from Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Leo Janos
watIrrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above
from The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
Religions are divisive and quarrelsome. They are a form of one-upmanship because they depend upon separating the “saved” from the “damned,” the true believers from the heretics, the in-group from the out-group.