February 2012
20 posts
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
– James Abbot McNeill Whistler (via etceterablog)
Feb 9th
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“your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the...”
– The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski (via steve-kim)
Feb 9th
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“It seems to me that art has to be ritually separated from life in order to be...”
– Mike Kelley
Feb 8th
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williamlmoore: “Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn’t allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow – “don’t hate me for my success, don’t hate me for my power”. She doesn’t pretend to the press that she thinks she is not talented, or suggest that she happened to make high-level art...
Feb 7th
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“A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing...”
– Malkavian Quotes (via roelofbotha)
Feb 7th
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“It sounds subtle, but these are the only days where I find myself getting...”
– Start every day as a producer, not a consumer - Journal - Daniel Howells /via @eric_wvgg (via pieratt)
Feb 7th
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“Asked what he’d save from his burning house, Cocteau replied “The fire!”
– Mrs Tsk *:   (via anfischer)
Feb 7th
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Top five regrets of the dying
nevver: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. I wish that I had let myself be happier. more (I hate to say it but this rings pretty true. Not that I’m dying. I mean, not soon. I hope. Well, OK,...
Feb 6th
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“When it becomes harder and harder to see the greatness that lies ahead, that’s...”
– (via thetaoofdana)
Feb 6th
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“Take a risk. Forget spending that $500 on yet another camera or lens and instead...”
– Andrew Reid: “To invest in gear, or creativity? It all comes down to risk” (via kenyatta)
Feb 6th
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“Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. Above all, do not let them hurt...”
– Paramahansa Yogananda   (via yourdreamswillcome)
Feb 5th
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“If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them,...”
– Henry Rollins (via sirmitchell)
Feb 5th
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(...) I'm philosophically opposed to suicide;... →
fette: Matthew Gallaway, The Suicide Impulse, February 2012.
Feb 4th
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi #quote (via sarahbethmodel)
Feb 4th
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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow...”
– Pablo Picasso (via billykidd)
Feb 3rd
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“Remember to look up at the stars, and not down to your feet. Try to make sense...”
– Stephen Hawking (source: muldershutup, via rockandrollandrobin)
Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
24 posts
“Nietzsche stressed this point. As he observed in his 1878 book Human, All Too...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via slantback)
Jan 31st
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“The importance of doing everything you do to your very best. And that the...”
– What ideals have you embraced from Steve Jobs? JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper
Jan 31st
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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Quotes by Max Lucado at allpoetry (via slantback)
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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Learning Your Groove
thetaoofdana: Not everything you create will start perfectly, or look like you want it to… but if you stick with it long enough, it will!!!  You can not learn your groove until you start and truly engage in the creative process.  You can’t do that until you get past the weird, awkward, hit or miss early stages of growth.  Avoid the temptation to quit… or to not start!… because its not perfect....
Jan 23rd
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Jan 20th
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billykidd: If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind
Jan 17th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for...”
– Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being (translated by Michael Henry Heim)
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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“‘As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely...”
–         Georges Bataille, “The Cruel Practice of Art” (via theministryoftruth)
Jan 8th
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The Self →
theministryoftruth: I am found of how philosopher Daniel Dennett deals with this problem of perceived, but illusionary selves. He attributes these philosophical problems to the fact that often we think in all-or-nothing terms. Either the self exists or it doesn’t. Dennett thinks that this line of thought leads to the conceptual pitfalls and muddles that arise in thought experiments such as...
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of...”
– Like it was written directly for me. Like a year’s worth of therapy. MILLS: Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death, the thesis of which can perhaps be summed thusly: humanity sublimates its fear of death through the causa sui project: the construction of meanings which are enduring and...
Jan 6th
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“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable — unobservable...”
– Leonard Susskind (via inthenoosphere)
Jan 6th
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“A poem is like a heavy weight that the poet has carried to the roof bit by bit....”
– Paul Valéry (via jackrusher)
Jan 5th
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Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur →
Jan 4th
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Mediocrity principle →
l-brick: The mediocrity principle is the notion in philosophy of science that there is nothing very unusual about the evolution of our solar system, the Earth, any one nation, or humans. It is a heuristic in the vein of the Copernican principle, and is sometimes used as a philosophical statement about the place of humanity. The idea is to assume mediocrity, rather than starting with the...
Jan 3rd
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“It’s a new year. You can be anything you want. You can do anything you want. You...”
– Twitter / @claytoncubitt (via claytoncubitt)
Jan 3rd
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“And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they...”
– Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn (via amber-rae : msg) We make luck. (via ericlodwick : ronenreblogs) Yes we do. (via supernice) (via beautifulordinaire, heyamberrae) (via ronenreblogs)
Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
On greatness and killing your ego.
dearcoketalk: Dear Coquette, How do I accept that I won’t ever be great or outstanding? I always thought I had talent, and maybe I’m not bad, but a great many people are far better. I can’t stop thinking this and it’s causing me great anxiety. Kill your ego, because nothing you do will ever matter. That’s okay, though. It’s not just you. It’s all of us. It’s taken 100,000 years for our species...
Jan 1st
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December 2011
27 posts
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– Miranda July, interviewed by the Guardian (via jackrusher)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“creativity was a better predictor of dishonesty than intelligence”
– These results are consistent with the study mentioned above by Silvia and colleagues, but go further by showing that not only is there a relationship between creativity and a dishonest personality, but that there is also a relationship between having a creative personality and actually behaving...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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