November 2, 2014

Tweeted October 2014: Food for thought


Tweet icon designed by Adame Dahmani from The Noun Project collection

“The only thing I love more than building my own ideas
is helping beginners learn how to build theirs”
—Raghu Betina
Tweeted by @starterleague on October 31, 2014

“If we don’t expect more from each other, hope better for one another, and recover from hurt, we are surely doomed.”
—Mrs. Jennings
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on October 30, 2014

“Anyone else starting to get the feeling Steve Jobs did OK
choosing his successor?”
—John Gruber
Tweeted by @gruber on October 30, 2014

“Never forget the people who believed in you
when you just started out.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 30, 2014

“You cannot understand what’s going on with Ferguson today
without knowing this history.”
—Richard Rothstein
Tweeted by @BillMoyersHQ on October 29, 2014

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
—Aristotle
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on October 29, 2014

“All I wanna do is make things.”
—Katie Thompson
Tweeted by @ktkozar on October 27, 2014

“Find employers that value your time.”
—Bryan Innes
Tweeted by @savannahmillion on October 25, 2014

“If I don’t write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy,
as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.”
—J. G. Ballard
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 24, 2014

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
—Bertrand Russell
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on October 23, 2014

“I am a creator motivated by love.”
—Tom Lawton
Tweeted by @elizabethkim76 on October 22, 2014

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening
to what another has to say.”
—Bryant McGill
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 21, 2014

“There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.”
—Bryant McGill
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 21, 2014

“In language, the words are asleep until we dream them.”
—Damion Searls
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 21, 2014

“I’ve felt the need to re-create, to restore lost ways,
lost places, lost styles of living.”
—William Goyen
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 21, 2014

“Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance,
it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.”
—Seth Godin
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 20, 2014

“A little vulnerability can make you a whole lot stronger.”
—Dan Wieden
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on October 20, 2014

“The only way you could ever tackle the world
was to write something that no one could hold off.”
—J. P. Donleavy
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 20, 2014

“All I want to do all day, every day, is make.”
—Beth Sheehan
Tweeted by @SheePrints on October 19, 2014

“When a writer tries to explain too much–he’s already
out of time when he begins.”
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 18, 2014

“You cannot have community without a shared reality.”
—Penn Jillette
Tweeted by @ChiDM on October 17, 2014

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
—Carl Jung
Tweeted by @CoryBooker on October 17, 2014

“We cannot lose the war against cancer. It not only costs us billions
of dollars, but it costs us people we love.”
—Jorge Soto
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on October 15, 2014

“Everything we enjoy, an 8-hr work day, vacation,
the right to vote, was caused by agitation.”
—Sally Rumble
Tweeted by @sallyrumble on October 15, 2014

“Being self-motivated and willing to work your ass off
is more important to me than having a very clear end result.”
—Lotta Nieminen
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 14, 2014

“Ada Lovelace Day is for celebrating Ada Lovelace.
If you want to celebrate women in tech do it every day.”
—Mike Monteiro
Tweeted by @monteiro on October 14, 2014

“The miracle is that a work of art should live
in the person who reads it.”
—Henry Green
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 13, 2014

“I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page,
some sixth sense…in a way no other medium can.”
—Chris Ware
Tweeted by @parisreview on October 12, 2014

“The market for something to believe in is infinite.”
—Hugh MacLeod
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on October 10, 2014

“How do we live well, not better—that’s what we should live
for at all ages, starting at birth.”
—Marta Benavides
Tweeted by @MWHodin on October 9, 2014

“Art does not move forward through individual acts of isolated genius,
but through collaborative exchange.”
—Andrew Raftery
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on October 8, 2014

“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
—Unknown
Tweeted by @sallyrumble on October 6, 2014

“Every lesson we teach is one we need to learn!”
—Sandee Kastrul
Tweeted by @ACEidenberg on October 6, 2014

“Everybody is creative.”
—Sally Rumble
Tweeted by @DrewGneiser on October 5, 2014

“One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received
was to stop waiting for advice.”
—Helena Price
Tweeted by @creativemorning on October 5, 2014

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures.
Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”
—Charles Ray
Tweeted by @studioloraine on October 5, 2014

“You’re not here to please everyone.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on October 3, 2014

“Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on October 3, 2014

“What is and what can be is our task going forward.”
—Steve Powers
Tweeted by @MsGenDupuis on October 3, 2014

“We use busy as a stand-in for the real reasons
we don’t want to do a thing.”
—Debbie Millman
Tweeted by @brainpicker on October 2, 2014

“You don’t find the time, you make the time.”
—Maria Popova
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 2, 2014

“Expect anything worthwhile to take a really long time!”
—Debbie Millman
Tweeted by @swissmiss on October 2, 2014

“If you’re looking for a work/life balance,
chances are you don’t really love what you’re working on.”
—Debbie Millman
Tweeted by @brainpicker on October 2, 2014

“When a city’s creative community lifts each other up,
the entire city rises.”
—Blake Howard
Tweeted by @BrandWriter on October 2, 2014

“If you take the money out of it, it becomes authentic.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @Raleigh_CM on October 2, 2014

“Trust breeds magic.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @juliajamieson on October 2, 2014

“Every decision should come from the heart.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @Tess_OConnor on October 2, 2014

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