July 4, 2014

Tweeted June 2014: Food for thought


Tweet icon designed by Adame Dahmani from The Noun Project collection

“If more women are in leadership roles,
we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.”
—Sheryl Sandberg
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on June 30, 2014

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
—Nora Ephron
Tweeted by @AdviceToWriters on June 30, 2014

“The biological clock and the career clock
are in total conflict with each other.”
—Indra Nooyi
Tweeted by @aspenideas on June 30, 2014

“We need to get back to making evidence based decisions.”
—Hillary Clinton
Tweeted by @aspenideas on June 30, 2014

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero.
Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
—Czesław Miłosz
Tweeted by @goodreads on June 30, 2014

“Creativity is not a eureka moment, it’s preparation,
incubation, inspiration and production.”
—Nancy Andreasen
Tweeted by @aspenideas on June 28, 2014

“Don’t be too dismissive of children. While it’s true
that few children are artists, all artists are children.”
—Ned Rorem
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 28, 2014

“You are a start-up…The next great business is you.”
—Hugh Howey
Tweeted by @Kelsye on June 28, 2014

“An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist;
if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.”
—Toni Morrison
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 27, 2014

“Art is the language of the soul.
What people would deny their children language?”
—Alfre Woodard
Tweeted by @aspenideas on June 27, 2014

“The creative impulse is in human beings, like blood.”
—Alfre Woodard
Tweeted by @aspenideas on June 27, 2014

“The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane
which is imagined. It moves in a mind.”
—Philip Guston
Tweeted by @artinstitutechi on June 27, 2014

“I always had compositions in my dreams…
There’s something in me that just wants to create dialogue.”
—David Mamet
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 27, 2014

“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world,
but to gain a clear view of what we already know.”
—Michael Dummett
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on June 27, 2014

“I write when I have to, when it becomes a kind of biological necessity.”
—Donald Margulies
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 26, 2014

“You have to be interested in culture to design for it.”
—Lorraine Wild
Tweeted by @designersbooks on June 24, 2014

“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table
and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”
—Paul Newman
Tweeted by @njenworks on June 24, 2014

“Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time.”
—Oliver Burkeman
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on June 23, 2014

“The best way to accomplish serious design—is to be totally
and completely unqualified for the job.”
—Paula Scher
Tweeted by @industry on June 23, 2014

“My religion is my compassion.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on June 22, 2014

“On average, long-form content actually gets shared
more than short-form content.”
—Noah Kagan
Tweeted by @jamescrabtree on June 22, 2014

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.”
—Mark Twain
Tweeted by @creativemorning on June 19, 2014

“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
—Albert Einstein
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on June 19, 2014

“I let words and images emerge from within. If you do that,
you might prove something in the process.”
—Eugene Ionesco
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 19, 2014

“An important part of a work relationship is shared values:
What is authentically you & what is authentically us?”
—Steve Stoute
Tweeted by @Cannes_Lions on June 17, 20140

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
—Pema Chodron
Tweeted by @ExPrTMary on June 16, 2014

“Don’t grieve what doesn’t come. Some things don’t happen
to keep disasters from happening.”
—Rumi
Tweeted by @ExPrTMary on June 16, 2014

“Every time a meeting is suddenly cancelled,
an angel sings somewhere.”
—Jared Spool
Tweeted by @jmspool on June 16, 2014

“It’s the idea and the feeling first, then it’s the medium.”
—Spike Jonze
Tweeted by @sdonaton on June 16, 2014

"Start now, every day, becoming, in regular actions,
what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things."
—Anna Deveare Smith
Tweeted by @brainpicker on June 16, 2014

“When I’m making a movie, I don’t know what it is I’m saying.
I know what it means to me.”
—Spike Jonze
Tweeted by @sdonaton on June 16, 2014

“Very, very small changes can have disproportionately huge effects.”
—Rory Sutherland
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on June 13, 2014

“No other scientific field rivals astrophysics
in the transparency of its lexicon.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on June 13, 2014

“You want to be a writer? A writer is someone
who writes every day—so start writing.”
—Shonda Rhimes
Tweeted by @brainpicker on June 12, 2014

“Being a community builder means that you understand
that people are struggling and they’re turning to each other.”
—Scott Heiferman
Tweeted by @swissmiss on June 12, 2014

“Ego has no place in the world of community!”
—Cindy Au
Tweeted by @swissmiss on June 11, 2014

“Working remotely is cool but there’s something great
about looking over your chair, asking for help,
and solving your problem in 5 minutes.”
—James T. Green
Tweeted by @onthefirefly on June 11, 2014

“If you try to delight the undelightable,
you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.”
—Seth Godin
Tweeted by @swissmiss on June 10, 2014

“We are star stuff contemplating the evolution of matter
into beings that can ask questions.”
—Ann Druyan and Steven Soter
Tweeted by @NewtonGoatboy on June 8, 2014

“In the end you are loved more for your purring
than for your perfection.”
—Joyce Carol Oates
Tweeted by @JoyceCarolOates on June 8, 2014

“"Every single person can make a change if they have a passion for it.”
—Maya Penn
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on June 8, 2014

“The first good idea, begs your curiosity to refine it.
To craft it into better, new ones. But was the first idea the best one?”
—John Maeda
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on June 8, 2014

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things,
the supreme excellence is simplicity”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tweeted by @MakersRow on June 7, 2014

“Imagine if we were participating in the world around us.
Fixing, solving, making, sharing. And with a smile.”
—Tom Ferrand and Dan Burgess
Tweeted by @DoLectures on June 7, 2014

“If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book,
maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
—Nikki Giovanni
Tweeted by @gothamwriters on June 7, 2014

“We need to have a better relationship with nature
because as soon as we have that, we’ll make better choices.”
—Rohan Anderson
Tweeted by @DoLectures on June 7, 2014

“May the sun always shine upon you, the love surround you,
and the pure light within you guide your way on.”
—Fergal Smith
Tweeted by @DoLectures on June 7, 2014

“I believe a great piece of art is one
that can communicate through time.”
—Nick Grey
Tweeted by @DoLectures on June 7, 2014

“It’s something I love to do, putting words in and taking words out.”
—Raymond Carver
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 7, 2014

“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
—John Burroughs
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on June 6, 2014

“The best ideas come as jokes.
Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
—David Ogilvy
Tweeted by @crushlovely on June 5, 2014

“Communication between enterprise and customers
is no longer mitigated by marketing.”
—Yves Behar
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on June 5, 2014

“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—”
—Emily Dickinson
Tweeted by @ExPrTMary on June 4, 2014

“In science, knowing a lot of stuff is not the point.”
—Stuart Firestein
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on June 3, 2014

“Writing has always been like that for me.
Slowly blundering my way toward consciousness.”
—Paul Auster
Tweeted by @parisreview on June 3, 2014

“With handwriting, the very act of putting it down
forces you to focus on what’s important."
—Jessica Jacobs
Tweeted by @JessicaJacobs on June 2, 2014

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something
you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”
—Doris Lessing
Tweeted by @4Rheablue on June 2, 2014

“What if it wasn’t about building an audience or making money?
What if it was about doing something that makes me happy?”
—Hope Larson
Tweeted by @hopelarson on June 1, 2014

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