Luke's Commonplace Book

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This is Luke's Commonplace Book, circa April, 2007.

June 14, 2013 at 10:59pm
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“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” – Ira Glass

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” – Ira Glass

2:51pm
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“To be wise is to be eternally curious” - Frederick Buechner

“To be wise is to be eternally curious” - Frederick Buechner

June 13, 2013 at 8:00am
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“embrace the Huck part” - George Saunders

“embrace the Huck part” - George Saunders

6:48am
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“only by indirect means” - Soren Kierkegaard

“only by indirect means” - Soren Kierkegaard

June 12, 2013 at 6:38am
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“A reader lives a thousand lives…” - George R.R. Martin

“A reader lives a thousand lives…” - George R.R. Martin

6:35am
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“Sustained acts of Frankenstein & self-piracy!” – Mike Harrison

“Sustained acts of Frankenstein & self-piracy!” – Mike Harrison

June 11, 2013 at 5:26pm
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“My process is thinking…thinking…and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know.” – Hayao Miyazaki

“My process is thinking…thinking…and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know.” – Hayao Miyazaki

5:01pm
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“I start my class explaining that learning to write is their moral duty. I told them they had access to more information that 99 percent of all humans who have ever lived. It is a moral duty to learn how to communicate that information, clearly and compellingly. I think everyone should own their education.”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I start my class explaining that learning to write is their moral duty. I told them they had access to more information that 99 percent of all humans who have ever lived. It is a moral duty to learn how to communicate that information, clearly and compellingly. I think everyone should own their education.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

12:42pm
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This is the first place I’ve been where they respect what you can do rather than concentrate on what you can’t.

— Bruce Bowen on the San Antonio Spurs

12:22pm
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the internet is the greatest work of literature I’ve ever read

— James Bridle, via Rob in this thread

9:18am
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David Ogilvy’s Ten Qualities of Creative Leaders, via Brain Pickings

David Ogilvy’s Ten Qualities of Creative Leaders, via Brain Pickings

8:58am
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I read books, but I don’t finish them. Let’s stop pretending. My reading and the wobbly tower of ideas built alongside and atop it is not a street, a line, it’s a topology, a crystal growing in space, layering the insides of the seizure and projecting into it. It is counterproductive to suggest otherwise.

— James Bridle, via Rob

8:56am
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1. High standards of personal ethics.
2. Big people, without pettiness.
3. Guts under pressure, resilience in defeat.
4. Brilliant brains — not safe plodders.
5. A capacity for hard work and midnight oil.
6. Charisma — charm and persuasiveness.
7. A streak of unorthodoxy — creative innovators.
8. The courage to make tough decisions.
9. Inspiring enthusiasts — with trust and gusto.
10. A sense of humor.

— David Ogilvy’s ten qualities of a creative leader

June 10, 2013 at 6:54am
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Reblogged from bensk

I start my class explaining that learning to write is their moral duty. I told them they had access to more information that 99 percent of all humans who have ever lived. It is a moral duty to learn how to communicate that information, clearly and compellingly. I think everyone should own their education.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates (via bensk)

(via bensk)

June 7, 2013 at 2:15pm
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Reblogged from merlin

My process is thinking…thinking…and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know.

— Hayao Miyazaki (via merlin)

(via merlin)