Tag: quotes
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America, the paperback version 🔖
“I think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version” Don DeLillo, The Names (Amazon)
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‘I came to painting to hang my ideas on a nail’
“I came to painting to hang my ideas on a nail.” Georges Braque, “La musicienne, 1918”
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Cold water courage
The quickest way to get used to cold water is to dive right in. The slowest and more painful way to get used to cold water is to go in gradually, dipping in each body part until it warms up. Most people take the gradual approach because they’re scared. As a result, they’re most likely…
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‘Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent’
“Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent.” — Charles White
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‘His retina is beleaguered with images’
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“What of modern man’s scale of values? His retina is beleaguered with images (photographs, printed matter, street advertisements, Cinema) from morning to night.” Alvar Aalto, 1927 And now we’re beleaguered with shiny devices that blast such promotions into our eyes. We all carry a piece of Times Square in our pocket. gif by Tomasz Konczakowski
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Writing with a pencil
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If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the proof. Writing it first in pencil gives you…
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‘Everybody wants to be somebody: Nobody wants to grow’
Everybody wants to be somebody: Nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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‘I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I can’t disagree with your experience’
I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I can’t disagree with your experience. And once I have a sense of your experience, you and I are in relationship, acknowledging the complexity in each other’s position, listening less guardedly. The difference in our opinions will probably remain intact, but it no longer defines…
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‘Sometimes people say a song made them cry when they mean a song let them cry’
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Sometimes people say a song made them cry when they mean a song let them cry. Michael McKean gif via Emma Darvick
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Oblique Strategy: Turn it upside down
“Turn a seeming disadvantage to your advantage. The greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.” Robert Fripp via Brian Eno
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Philip Roth on naps
“Let me tell you about the nap,” he laughs. “It’s absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to me, ‘Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off, put…
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‘Give yourself Permission to Suck’
If we never get started, we never get good, and you can’t get good without first being bad. To overcome perfectionism and get started, you need to accept that your first attempts will not be up to your standards. You have to give yourself Permission to Suck. David Kadavy