“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” – Ira Glass
“My process is thinking…thinking…and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know.” – Hayao Miyazaki
“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
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
the internet is the greatest work of literature I’ve ever read
— James Bridle, via Rob in this thread
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
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.
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)
My process is thinking…thinking…and thinking. If you have a better way, please let me know.
— Hayao Miyazaki (via merlin)
(via merlin)
