Tweeted March 2015: Food for thought

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“Today, being able to continuously learn and share new knowledge
is as important as showing up on time was in the industrial economy.”
—Harold Jarche
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on March 31

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Tweeted by @ItsArcoh on March 29

“It’s time to build for fun.”
—Kevin Wang
Tweeted by @kphw on March 28

“Every sentence is an innovation.”
—John Cheever
Tweeted by @parisreview on March 28

“Writing teaches writing.”
—John McPhee
Tweeted by @parisreview on March 27

“Every now and then I get the impression
that people would rather react before they think.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on March 26

“Be makers of things, not just consumers,
because our future depends on it.”
—Dave Perth
Tweeted by @creativemorning on March 26

“Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.”
—Alain de Botton
Tweeted by @alaindebotton on March 26

“If I were ever abducted by aliens, the first thing I’d ask
is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on March 24

“Invest your life in what you love.”
—Jessica Jackley
Tweeted by @creativemorning on March 24

“You can’t write notes in class and listen to the instructor
at the same time. I know you think you can. But you can’t.”
—Jeff Cohen
Tweeted by @jeffcohen on March 22

“Behind every great woman is like four or five even greater women
who she’s lucky to have around her.”
—Lara Hogan
Tweeted by @lara_hogan on March 22

“A niche is the intersection of an industry and a skill.”
—Robert W. Bly
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on March 22

“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood
if you’re going to innovate.”
—Jeff Bezos
Tweeted by @ValaAfshar on March 21

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience
is a form of exploration.”
—Ansel Adams
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on March 21

“The more shame, the more clicks.
The more clicks, the more advertising.”
—Monica Lewinsky
Tweeted by @jenny8lee on March 19

“We accept that with innovation comes mistakes.”
—Tegan Martin-Drysdale
Tweeted by @creativemorning on March 19

“Imagine your healthy future self and start living that life now.
Break your journey down into little battles you can win.”
—Coots
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on March 18

“The human body is made of 72% water and the rest is pure will.”
—Marie Louise Kold
Tweeted by @creativemorning on March 18

“Women make immeasurable contributions to our world.”
—President Obama
Tweeted by @BarackObama on March 8

“Writing is self-taught, completely.”
—James Salter
Tweeted by @portmagazine on March 7

“Have the bravery to find those people, put yourself out there,
and try to create work for them.”
—Christiaan Van Vuuren
Tweeted by @creativemorning on March 6

“There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product:
truth, humanity, and simplicity.”
—Sohrab Vossoughi
Tweeted by @swissmiss on March 2

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Tweeted January 2015: Food for thought

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“Most importantly, it’s about doing stuff
instead of wishing you had done stuff.”
—Christiann Van Vuuren
Tweeted by @creativemorning on January 31

“Writing is 30% crying, 50% hating everything about your book,
and 20% making emotional Nobel Prize acceptance speeches
in the shower.”
—John Hansen
Tweeted by @ABoredAuthor on January 25

“Write the book the way it should be written,
then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”
—Elmore Leonard
Tweeted by @GarLaSalle on January 24

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
—Gloria Steinem
Tweeted by @carlyayres on January 21

“What we make, makes us.”
—Richard Boehmcke
Tweeted by @creativemorning on January 21

“I write to believe in goodness.”
―Red Haircrow
Tweeted by @ChiWritersConf on January 20

“Customers will never love a company
until the employees love it first.”
—Simon Sinek
Tweeted by @swissmiss on January 20

“The best time to start reading more books was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now!”
—Chinese Proverb
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on January 20

“I miss my pre-Internet brain.”
—Lauren Currie
Tweeted by @Redjotter on January 20

“Pretending you know what you’re doing
is almost the same as knowing what you are doing…”
—Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
Tweeted by @onefloorup on January 17

“Failure is not much of a thing at all. It’s mostly a point of view.”
—Ben Pieratt
Tweeted by @creativemorning on January 17

“It annoys me every day that when people refer to ‘business,’
they mean big biz—and blithely ignore tens
of thousands of awesome small biz.”
—Tom Peters
Tweeted by @tom_peters on January 16

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
—George Gordon Byron
Tweeted by @ChiWritersConf on January 16

“Cultures cherish artists because they are people
who can say, ‘Look at that!’”
—Marilynne Robinson
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 16

“I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”
—Erskine Caldwell
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 16

“The key to making teams more agile and more lean isn’t the process, but the amount of understanding the teams share.”
—Peter Morville
Tweeted by @morville on January 16

“If the work weren’t difficult, I’d die of boredom.”
—William Gaddis
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 16

“Education means making creators…inventors, innovators,
not conformists.”
—Jean Piaget
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on January 14

“Original thought is like original sin: both happened
before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”
—Fran Lebowitz
Tweeted by @christinaebohn on January 14

“If you ask the wrong questions, any answer is useless.
Figure out what you really need to know.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 14

“Focus your marketing solely on ideal clients,
otherwise you’ll take on poor and distracting business.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 14

“You can find out how to do something and then do it
or do something and then find out what you did.”
—Isamu Noguchi
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on January 14

“Everybody hates advertising until they have something to sell.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on January 13

“We stigmatize mistakes, and the result is that we are educating people
out of their creative capacities.”
—Ken Robinson
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on January 13

“Words aren’t written by an invisible author-god.
They represent the efforts of flesh-and-blood.”
—Paul Auster
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 12

“I write what I don’t know.”
—Robert Creeley
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 12

“The good thing about writing books is that you can dream
while you are awake.”
—Haruki Murakami
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 12

“To be creative, first empty your mind of the preconceptions
and self-limiting beliefs.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 12

“A novel does not exist until it is published and in the hands
of the readers. Until then, it is pure phantasmagoria.”
—José Cela
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 11

“You can’t do it all. But you can sure as hell try.”
—Duane King
Tweeted by @DuaneKing on January 11

“Maybe we’re going to be able to teach the world something
about authenticity and love.”
—Jill Soloway
Tweeted by @DerrickClifton on January 11

“We are really, really good at staying busy. Sometimes the challenge
is in knowing when you should just take it easy for a little while.”
—Megan Johnson
Tweeted by @tipsy_writer on January 11

“I’m (pleasantly) surprised some of these newspapers
are still reviewing books.”
—John McQuaid
Tweeted by @johnmcquaid on January 11

“Mentoring opportunities will often come to those
who continue to learn regardless of their age
or expertise and yet remain humble.”
—Jim Martin
Tweeted by @JimMartin on January 11

“An idea is only as great as it is well-executed.”
—Mana Ionescu
Tweeted by @MadeInChicagoSB on January 11

“Don’t freeze fearing imperfection. Move forward anticipating success.”
—Alan Weiss
Tweeted by @BentleyGTCSpeed on January 11

“The novel makes itself, I make it, and it makes me.”
—Claude Simon
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 10

“Whatever you believe, whatever your worldview,
the Earth is not 6,000 years old.”
—Bill Nye
Tweeted by @scifri on January 10

“It’s astounding to hear what someone admires in you.
I don’t know why we don’t compliment one another all the time.”
—Mandy Len Catron
Tweeted by @marshallk on January 10

“All my writing was born out of anger.
In order to contain it, I had to write.”
—Elie Weisel
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 10

“I think a writer’s life is the ideal life.”
—P. G. Wodehouse
Tweeted by @johnsonwhitney on January 10

“Every single book or painting or piece of music exists
and we take from it what we need.”
—Kaulie Lewis
Tweeted by @The_Millions on January 10

“When people say they’re doing research, I say,
‘You’re just postponing writing.’”
—Mary Karr
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 9

“Art is craft, not inspiration.”
—Stephen Sondheim
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 9

“With me, a story usually begins with a single idea
or memory or mental picture.”
—William Faulkner
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 9

“Anyone who tries to fit the world into binaries is necessarily fragile.”
—Hari Kunzru
Tweeted by @emilynussbaum on January 8

“Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.”
—Anne Lamott
Tweeted by @KMWeiland on January 8

“Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.”
—Heinrich Böll
Tweeted by @parisreview on January 8

“People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people,
they’ll relate to you, too.”
—Laura Busche
Tweeted by @stokefire on January 7

“Wear your heart on the page, and people will read
to find out how you solved being alive.”
—Gordon Lish
Tweeted by @AdviceToWriters on January 6

“We can’t practice compassion with other people
if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.”
—Brené Brown
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on January 6

“If you are a really attentive and prayerful reader,
that’s the best way to develop that instinct [as a storyteller.]”
—Sigrid Nunez
Tweeted by @ErikaOnFire on January 6

“Ability is what you can do. Determination is how much you want it
and Character is how you do it! Go for it!”
—Diane von Furstenberg
Tweeted by @DVF on January 6

“Many authors spend too much time on marketing and social media
when they should be spending more time writing.”
—Mark Coker
Tweeted by @laurahazardowen on January 6

“Reading and writing should be the floor, not the ceiling.”
—Yong Zhao
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on January 5

“Aspirations are the gravity of the future; they draw you to it
as you build towards them.”
—Tom Koulopoulos
Tweeted by @ariannahuff on January 5

“Procrastination is a cousin of burnout—both are experiences
where desire and action do not meet.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on January 5

“To watch a Miyazaki movie is to remember what it was like
to be a smart and curious child.”
—Mike Hale
Tweeted by @zeldman on January 4

“It’s really hard to believe your POV matters
when most of the world denies it even exists. It’s a daily battle.”
—Malinda Lo
Tweeted by @malindalo on January 4

“Success is not always what you see.”
—Banksy
Tweeted by @thereaIbanksy on January 3

“Stay on your grind.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on January 3

“Claim your adulthood. Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know
or didn’t do. You’re deciding your life right now.”
—Meg Jay
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on January 3

“Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity
for making a summary.”
—Lytton Strachey
Tweeted by @gretchenrubin on January 2

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”
—Saul Bass
Tweeted by @JavinLadish on January 1

“We have a whole new year ahead of us and wouldn’t it be wonderful
if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe—next year this time—we’d like each other a little more.”
—Judy Garland
Tweeted by @tcm on January 1

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Tweeted December 2014: Food for thought

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“Being a writer is like being an individual proprietor:
You don’t like the way I do things, get out of my shop.”
—Peter Carey
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 30, 2014

“The most essential gift for a good writer
is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
—Ernest Hemingway
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 30, 2014

“What you have to do as a writer is...write day in and day out
no matter what happens.”
—William Stafford
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 30, 2014

“Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.”
—Maya Angelou
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 30, 2014

“Make the content the focus.”
—Austin Dandridge
Tweeted by @TechPoetMonica on December 29, 2014

“Take more chances. Make more art. Launch more often.”
—Cynthia Morris
Tweeted by @creativemorning on December 29, 2014

“You deserve the trust and freedom to speak candidly and honestly,
and to count on your colleagues to do the same.”
—Jesse Hertzberg
Tweeted by @swissmiss on December 22, 2014

“Oftentimes, we live and go through life just accepting things
for the way they are. And oftentimes, all we have to do
is make a decision to change.”
—Steve Larosiliere
Tweeted by @creativemorning on December 22, 2014

“What I feel very uncomfortable about is being called amazing
and inspiring for standing up for what’s right.”
—Sally Rumble
Tweeted by @sallyrumble on December 21, 2014

“Be freethinkers—ask what’s true, not who else believes it.”
—Bill Maher
Tweeted by @billmaher on December 20, 2014

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on December 19, 2014

“Are we raising kids who don’t know how to dream big dreams,
whose biggest goal is getting the next A?”
—Carol Dweck
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on December 18, 2014

“Every day, we should be striving to learn something new.
We should have an unquenchable curiosity.”
—Ken Jennings
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on December 15, 2014

“The fact designers are debating font choice on a protest shirt
is exactly why we earn the reputation for not giving
a shit about real life.”
—Joseph Hughes
Tweeted by @nczeitgeist on December 13, 2014

“It takes a certain amount of nerve just to be a writer.”
—Harold Brodkey
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 12, 2014

“You can’t just educate the kids, you also have to educate the parents.”
—Fawn Johnson
Tweeted by @TheAtlantic on December 12, 2014

“For designers, elegance = empathy;
for engineers, elegance = efficiency. We need both.”
—John Maeda
Tweeted by @johnmaeda on December 12, 2014

“The best writing is certainly when you are in love.”
—Ernest Hemingway
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 12, 2014

“I’ve never seen good results from people trying to speak
about things they don’t know firsthand.”
—Michael Haneke
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 12, 2014

“Carefully constructed sentences cast a tint
of indefinable substance over a story.”
—Annie Proulx
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 11, 2014

“Being able to see the pathology of underlying disease really helps us
apply diagnosis and treatment across multiple species.”
—Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
Tweeted by @TEDMED on December 10, 2014

“People rarely need more creativity—they simply need more courage.
It’s easier to blame creativity than admit lack of conviction.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on December 9, 2014

“Never underestimate the impact increased compassion
can have on your life.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on December 8, 2014

“Some people are born with an amazing gift for storytelling;
it’s a gift which I’ve never had at all.”
—Aldous Huxley
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 8, 2014

“I never write except with a writing board...
And I use all sorts of things. Write on the sole of my shoe.”
—Robert Frost
Tweeted by @parisreview on December 8, 2014

“If you’re young and take a while to respond to a text
from an old person, don’t front like you just saw it. We know.”
—Ryan Evans
Tweeted by @ryanevans on December 7, 2014

“Stress Less Achieve More. Judge Less Serve More.
Age Less Laugh More. Grudge Less Forgive More.
Doubt Less Be More. Fear Less Love More.
—Cory Booker
Tweeted by @CoryBooker on December 7, 2014

“Nothing happens without creativity.”
—Russell Simmons
Tweeted by @UncleRUSH on December 7, 2014

“The metaphor of life as a trip is one I’m fond of—we have limited time
in limited places yet there are interesting experiences all around.”
—Scott Berkun
Tweeted by @berkun on December 7, 2014

“Aliens, seeing Humans kill over land, politics, religion, and skin color,
would surely ask, ‘What the f*%k is wrong with you?’”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on December 6, 2014

“Never forget that one of the biggest things you can do in any day
is extend a small act of kindness, decency or love toward another.”
Tweeted by @CoryBooker on December 6, 2014

“Just because you can’t figure out how ancient civilizations built stuff,
doesn’t mean they got help from Aliens.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on December 5, 2014

“Designers work differently based on situational models:
‘designer as creator’ → ‘designer as translator’
→ ‘designer as facilitator.’”
—Ashleigh Axios
Tweeted by @AshleighAxios on December 4, 2014

“If we provide teachers with well designed tools
that are already connected with the standards, we help them succeed.”
—Ashleigh Axios
Tweeted by @AshleighAxios on December 4, 2014

“Of talent, some might say you’ve ‘Got it down to a science’.
But only when it’s also beautiful have you ‘Raised to an Art’.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tweeted by @neiltyson on December 2, 2014

“A surprising stat: In the developing world, more people die of cancer than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined.”
—Anders Kelto
Tweeted by @anderskelto on December 1, 2014

“Branding sophistication is worth the effort.”
—Neil Blumenthal and David Gilboa
Tweeted by @thinkstudionyc on December 1, 2014

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Tweeted November 2014: Food for thought

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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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Tweeted October 2014: Food for thought

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“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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Tweeted August 2014: Food for thought

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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
—Franz Kafka
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 29, 2014

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule
to read some poetry and listen to some music every week.”
—Charles Darwin
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 29, 2014

“Success is going from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm.”
—Winston Churchill
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 28, 2014

“It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator.”
—Maria Popova
Tweeted by @CreativeLive on August 27, 2014

“A theme is something that is worth something to everybody.”
—Frank O’Connor
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 27, 2014

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
—Samuel Beckett
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 26, 2014

“There are still faint glimmers of civilization left
in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.”
—Wes Anderson’s film “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Tweeted by @stuartbache on August 24, 2014

“I’m really after keeping the reader
in a heightened state of vigilance.”
—Mark Leyner
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 23, 2014

“We can’t practice compassion with other people
if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.”
—Brené Brown
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 22, 2014

“Getting started is like getting a rocket off the ground.
You need the most energy and the most push to get started.”
—Robert Crumb
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 22, 2014

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
—James Joyce
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 22, 2014

“It is impossible to love and be wise.”
—Francis Bacon
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 21, 2014

“We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words,
you are the hero of your own story.”
—Mary McCarthy
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 21, 2014

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 20, 2014

“A good interview reveals something that the subject
has never said before.”
—Kenzaburo Oe
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 19, 2014

“Character—the willingness to accept responsibility
for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”
—Joan Didion
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 18, 2014

“I spent so much of my life telling people the things
they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to.”
—Clint Smith
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 16, 2014

“You have these intellectual fingerprints,
and you can’t help leaving them on things.”
—Michael Frayn
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 15, 2014

“Go after what creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself
to handle the stress that follows.”
—Kelly McGonigal
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 15, 2014

“Only humankind is so thoroughly narrative,
constantly reinventing the past or imagining the future.”
—Jim Crace
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 15, 2014

“The act of teaching is one of the most valuable ways to learn.”
—Adam Braun
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 15, 2014

“Being a writer is like being an individual proprietor...
You don’t like the way I do things, get out of my shop.”
—Peter Carey
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 15, 2014

“If you raise money from huge numbers of people,
you feel beholden to huge numbers of people.”
—Tim Wu
Tweeted by @s_pease on August 14, 2014

“More iterations don’t fix faulty assumptions!”
—Mark Hurst
Tweeted by @swissmiss on August 14, 2014

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
—Virginia Woolf
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 14, 2014

“I think of the notebook as a house for words,
as a secret place for thought and self-examination.”
—Paul Auster
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 13, 2014

“I think I’ve damn well earned the right to be judged on my own.”
—Lauren Bacall
Tweeted by @50000feet on August 13, 2014

“We live in a world where if you tell people you’re depressed,
everyone runs the other way.”
—Kevin Breel
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 12, 2014

“It doesn’t seem to me that life conforms to systems.
Only systems conform to systems.”
—Wallace Stegner
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 12, 2014

“If you didn’t feel troubled with the world,
you probably wouldn’t go to the effort of making art.”
—W. D. Snodgrass
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 12, 2014

“You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer
you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
—Robin Williams
Tweeted by @Fender on August 12, 2014

“The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity
to go over it and make it good, one way or another.”
—James Salter
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 12, 2014

“Why write? To write. To make something.”
—Claude Simon
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 11, 2014

“Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools
but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.”
—Simon Sinek
Tweeted by @LiveGrey on August 10, 2014

“Not only do I want the reader to [but] I want to get inside
the events and feel what it was like.”
—David McCullough
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 10, 2014

“A novel is a marriage: one has to be cunning,
devise compromises and make sacrifices.”
—Amos Oz
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 9, 2014

“Stories are a fundamental human form of thought.”
—Iris Murdoch
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 9, 2014

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn
before the rest of the world.”
—Oscar Wilde
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 9, 2014

“It may be unhealthy, but I feel that without literature
my life would have no meaning.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 9, 2014

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
—Bill Cosby
Tweeted by @LiveGrey on August 9, 2014

“It’s the most exciting moment when you discover life
in what you’ve created, a life you have to respect.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 8, 2014

“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can’t write
only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.”
—Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 7, 2014

“Four hours of uninterrupted time is the best gift
you can give anybody at work.”
—Jason Fried
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 6, 2014

“That art is as much about ideas as it is about things,
about emotions as much as about materials.”
—Holland Cotter
Tweeted by @mkonnikova on August 6, 2014

“Not everything will be okay but some things will.”
—Maira Kalman
Tweeted by @swissmiss on August 6, 2014

“Any time a writer tells you where a book starts, he is lying,
because I don’t think he knows.”
—John Gregory Dunne
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 6, 2014

“The things you think of to link are not in your own control.
It’s just who you are, bumping into the world. But how you link them is what shows the nature of your mind. Indivduality resides in the way links are made.”
—Anne Carson
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 5, 2014

“No company with such disregard for their own customers
will succeed for long.”
—John Gruber
Tweeted by @swissmiss on August 4, 2014

“The tallest oak in the forest
was once just a little nut that held its ground.”
—Unknown
Tweeted by @collabfund on August 4, 2014

“Leaders must show they care about their employees’ agenda
before they can expect employees to care about the company’s agenda.”
—Doug Conant
Tweeted by @DougConant on August 2, 2014

“If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility
to send the elevator back down.”
—Kevin Spacey
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on August 2, 2014

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
—Harry Golden
Tweeted by @ItsFeelingGr8 on August 1, 2014

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Tweeted July 2014: Food for thought

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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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Tweeted June 2014: Food for thought

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“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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