“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” – Ira Glass
“To be wise is to be eternally curious” - Frederick Buechner
“embrace the Huck part” - George Saunders
“only by indirect means” - Soren Kierkegaard
“A reader lives a thousand lives…” - George R.R. Martin
“Sustained acts of Frankenstein & self-piracy!” – Mike Harrison
“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
David Ogilvy’s Ten Qualities of Creative Leaders, via Brain Pickings
“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.”
— David Ogilvy’s ten qualities of a creative leader
“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)
(Source: The Atlantic, 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)