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“Dear everyone who writes. Stop adding double spaces. Thanks.”
—Mike Sullivan
Tweeted by @studiomister on July 31, 2014
“Doing excellent work is a choice; not your company
or manager’s choice, always your choice.”
—Vala Afshar
Tweeted by @Remi_Tee on July 31, 2014
“There has never been a better time
in the whole history of the world to invent something.”
—Kevin Kelly
Tweeted by @ryanevans on July 30, 2014
“Critique teaches you to listen hard to others’ criticism
so you can listen hardest to yourself.”
—Jessie Shefrin
Tweeted by @leksandravit on July 30, 2014
“It’s pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years”
—Larry Page
Tweeted by @leksandravit on July 30, 2014
“When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability and statistics.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on July 29, 2014
“Student questions are the seeds of real learning.”
—Ramsey Musallam
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on July 29, 2014
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
—Michael Porter
Tweeted by @expa on July 28, 2014
“An explanation is where the mind comes to rest.”
—Michael Lewis
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on July 28, 2014
“If Comic-Con people ruled the world, the future would be invented daily and warfare would be bar-fights with toy light-sabers.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on July 25, 2014
“We are all designers, the difference
is that only a few of us do it full-time.”
—Sabo Tercero
Tweeted by @ChuckHTF on July 25, 2014
“Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them.”
—Fabian Pfortmüller
Tweeted by @swissmiss on July 24, 2014
“We go until it happens.”
—Dr. Dre
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on July 24, 2014
“Don’t mass-retweet praise about yourself. Please.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on July 23, 2014
“We made it very clear that being a female scientist, that’s normal.”
—Maria Klawe
Tweeted by @LadyBits on July 22, 2014
“Happiness is not something ready made,
it comes from your own actions.”
—Dalai Lama
Tweeted by @JessCLively on July 22, 2014
“Work Better.”
—Paul Jarvis
Tweeted by @karenebaker on July 22, 2014
“We need to stop designing for platforms and start designing for people. It’s all one product and one task.”
—Matias Duarte
Tweeted by @kathikaiser on July 22, 2014
“I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
—Galileo
Tweeted by @50000feet on July 21, 2014
“There is always room for improvement. No matter how small.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on July 21, 2014
“We have these brief lives, and our only real choice
is how we will fill them. Your attention is precious.”
—Jonathan Harris
Tweeted by @NaomieRoss on July 21, 2014
“Your best work is your expression of yourself.”
—Frank Gehry
Tweeted by @kerriehui on July 19, 2014
“If you want to be a writer, you have to write.”
—Philippa Hughes
Tweeted by @creativemorning on July 18, 2014
“The writer’s intention hasn’t anything to do
with what he or she achieves.”
—Lillian Hellman
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 18, 2014
“It’s from their having stood contrasted
That good and bad so long have lasted.”
—Robert Frost
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 18, 2014
“Our income went up, but our happiness went down.”
— Lee LeFever
Tweeted by @creativemorning on July 18, 2014
“It’s not technology that improves learning.
It’s how you use technology.”
—Annie Murphy Paul
Tweeted by @jlbknr on July 17, 2014
“People think they can work and be productive in the face
of all those interruptions [email, texts, gchat]. They can’t.”
—Alice Robb
Tweeted by @mkonnikova on July 17, 2014
“I will never understand why big companies hire
design studios/agencies on the other side of the globe!
I believe in local and face to face.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on July 17, 2014
“If you hire people who believe what you believe,
they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
—Simon Sinek
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on July 16, 2014
“Most people have much better things to do than form
highly nuanced and non-contradictory political opinions.”
—Dylan Matthews
Tweeted by @tylerrooney on July 15, 2014
“An artist was someone who worked,
not some special being exempt from the claims of ordinary life.”
—Tobias Wolff
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 9, 2014
“Writing is attempting to find a life that does not yet exist.”
—Richard Powers
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 7, 2014
“More than a commitment to the art or to the craft,
writing is a commitment to being alone in a room.”
—Orhan Pamuk
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 7, 2014
“Nothing is useless, everything bears on future work.”
—David McCullough
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 7, 2014
“I don’t eat breakfast. I just drink a glass of water.
I think that is perfect for writing.”
—Kenzaburo Oe
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 7, 2014
“Education is what people do to you,
and learning is what you do to yourself.”
—Joi Ito
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on July 7, 2014
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
—Joss Whedon
Tweeted by @ABookBestQuotes on July 6, 2014
“All artistic creation is a substitute
for erotic frustration and disappointment.”
—Daniel Mendelsohn
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 6, 2014
“You can never bend reality to serve the fiction.
You have to bend the fiction to serve reality.”
—Stephen King
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 6, 2014
“Reading is socially accepted disassociation.”
—Mary Karr
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 6, 2014
“I don’t think writers are supposed to give answers
or explain characters fully.”
—Ha Jin
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 6, 2014
“Life is a whole journey of meeting your edge again and again.”
—Pema Chödrön
Tweeted by @AniPemaChodron on July 4, 2014
“When you say NO, you are refusing the request
not rejecting the person.”
—Geraldine Bown
Tweeted by @SheQuotes on July 4, 2014
“There is no better time than the present
to be with our family and friends.”
—Annette Bridges
Tweeted by @SheQuotes on July 4, 2014
“I have no interest in designers who don’t have interest in design.
If you don’t want to do the work, change your role.”
—Zachary Jean Paradis
Tweeted by @zacharyparadis on July 2, 2014
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings,
we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
—Thurgood Marshall
Tweeted by @goodreads on July 2, 2014
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
—Albert Einstein
Tweeted by @collabfund on July 2, 2014
“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
—Pablo Picasso
Tweeted by @whereismeersman on July 1, 2014
“A truly fine writer will deal with seemingly unimportant matters
and make them transcendentally important.”
—William Styron
Tweeted by @parisreview on July 1, 2014
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
—Thomas Edison
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on July 1, 2014
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