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“I wanted to make art that had its own internal life.”
—Chris Ware
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 30, 2014
“I feel fortunate to make a living from writing books—and I owe it to readers and myself to take some big swings while I have the chance.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on November 28, 2014
“Times Have Changed: Officer kills an unarmed Black man,
spawning National protests. When I grew up, this was just local news.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on November 26, 2014
“I approach the work as though, in truth, I’m nothing
and the words are everything. Then I write to save my life.”
—Louise Erdrich
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 26, 2014
“The myth of the overnight success is just that, a myth.”
—Seth Godin
Tweeted by @creativemorning on November 26, 2014
“Last night i dreamt a fully realized imaginary Wu-Tang track. Kung fu flick samples, beat, verses, everything. My brain is so powerful.”
—Robert Shmurder
Tweeted by @bobby on November 26, 2014
“Prescription medication is sick care, but food is health care.”
—John La Puma
Tweeted by @StudyPathology on November 25, 2014
“If you woke up today, you have a purpose.”
—Jessica Disu
Tweeted by @FMSupreme on November 25, 2014
“DECOLONIZE YOUR MIND.”
—Kim Moore
Tweeted by @SoulRevision on November 24, 2014
“If your child were killed, under what circumstances would you accept there being no trial for their killer? Not just no conviction—no trial?”
—Anil Dash
Tweeted by @anildash on November 24, 2014
“People joke about the angry black woman. We have been born in
a society that is not made for us. If you were us, you’d be pissed too.”
—Jessica R. Williams
Tweeted by @msjwilly on November 24, 2014
“How do I explain this to my children? Again?”
—Ijeoma Oluo
Tweeted by @IjeomaOluo on November 24, 2014
“What you fear you attract.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on November 24, 2014
“You work for your ideas. Your ideas do not work for you.”
—Summer Pierre
Tweeted by @summerpierre on November 24, 2014
“I make far less money as an author than I did as a manager.
I decided more control over my time was much more valuable
than more money.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on November 24, 2014
“Confidence is earned from others around you;
belief in yourself is a conscious choice from within.”
—Dane Howard
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on November 23, 2014
“If eyes are the window to your soul, ears are the fucking door.”
—Lulu Miller
Tweeted by @WashingtonDC_CM on November 21, 2014
“I guess I’m never sure that print is truly linear.
It’s more a simultaneous medium.”
—Muriel Cooper
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on November 21, 2014
“Workplaces too often diminish human potential,
instead of elevating it.”
—Jessica Lawrence
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on November 20, 2014
“We all have the potential inside us to make things.”
—Linda Liukas
Tweeted by @SariSohlstrom on November 19, 2014
“It’s as simple as this: The only way anything gets done is because
you choose the time to do them. Choose the best things you can.”
—Patrick Rhone
Tweeted by @patrickrhone on November 18, 2014
“Work on what is hard.”
—Tim O’Reilly
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on November 13, 2014
“If you ask people where they go to get something done,
you almost never hear them say the office.”
—Jason Fried
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on November 13, 2014
“The best critics of ideas are the ones
who actually create their own ideas.”
—Inobites
Tweeted by @inobites on November 13, 2014
“What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.”
—Sadie Stein
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 12, 2014
“I have found that if you let a poem sit around long enough,
you come to see and hear it better.”
—Gary Snyder
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 12, 2014
“Real confused by girls who hate negative body image talk
but rip on thigh gaps, Kim K’s butt, etc.”
—Christin Tang
Tweeted by @ChristinTang on November 12, 2014
“An empty space is a place for questions, not answers.
What we don’t know is infinite.”
—Jenny Erpenbeck
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 12, 2014
“Gotta love that internet.”
—Carly Ayres
Tweeted by @carlyayres on November 11, 2014
“I always print each page that I finish. I need tangible proof.”
—José Saramago
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 11, 2014
“You never know when you’re going to find your next mentor.
Actively form and build your network.”
—Su Mathews
Tweeted by @AIGADC_SHINE on November 11, 2014
“Fiction is the only thing that brings me closer to the truth
that reality obscures.”
—Enrique Vila-Matas
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 11, 2014
“Never look down on anyone unless you are helping them up,
or they think the Earth is 6,000 years old.”
—Charles Powell
Tweeted by @Foodmancing on November 10, 2014
“When I sit down at this desk I am still as bashful
before the virgin page as I was sixty years ago.”
—Patrick O’Brian
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 10, 2014
“There’s room in this world for beauty to be diverse.”
—Lupita Nyong’o
Tweeted by @cindi_leive on November 10, 2014
“Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution.
Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on November 9, 2014
“Happiness and work aren’t mutually exclusive.”
—Chris Wilson
Tweeted by @chrisleewilson on November 8, 2014
“If I started to wait for moments of inspiration,
I would never finish a book.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa
Tweeted by @parisreview on November 8, 2014
“Don’t just mean that the web is for everyone to use:
it’s for everyone to make.”
—Jeremy Keith
Tweeted by @kanakorocks on November 8, 2014
“At work, we’re often so busy ’communicating’
that we don’t have time to think.”
—Sherry Turkle
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on November 7, 2014
“Educating the mind without educating the heart
is no education at all.”
Aristotle
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on November 7, 2014
“Fiction, nonfiction—the two are bleeding into each other all the time.”
—Geoff Dyer
Tweeted by @VintageAnchor on November 6, 2014
“It is not death that a man should fear,
but he should fear never beginning to live.”
—Marcus Aurelius
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on November 6, 2014
“Dear job applicants, potential new employers
will look at your Instagram and Twitter accounts.
Your social media footprint (tone) matters.”
—Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on November 5, 2014
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
—Saint Augustine
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on November 5, 2014
“I’m asked often now why I’m writing different kinds of books. How can you trust a creativity expert that only writes about creativity?”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on November 3, 2014
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
—Plato
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on November 1, 2014
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