“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil
"Advice is like being handed a large amount of foreign currency. What do you do with it?”
Rhik Samadder
"Amat victoria curam."
“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
Dolly Parton
“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”
Rick Rubin
"The best writing is rewriting."
E. B. White
"A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment."
B. F. Skinner
"However little television you watch, watch less."
David McCullough
"If you master focus, you will be in control of your world. If you don’t, it will control you."
Derek Sivers
“When you are not practicing, someone else is. When you meet him, he will win.”
"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself."
Chuck Close
"Strategy is where you spend your money and time. Strategy is not about intent or vision or aspiration. It is about action. Skip the dense PowerPoint presentation."
Gary P. Pisano
"You have to shut up and work and work and work all the time and produce and produce and produce. And the more you produce, your character or your talent will emerge, for better or for worse, your identity, your personality, your vision, whatever. As long as you work and work and work and make enough things to choose from, you’ll be able to have an edit. You’ll be able to edit something that becomes who you are. It’s so simple.”
Rick Owens
I rely on third-party tools to keep improving. Accept or reject. Either way is cool.