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- Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quintilian
- It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.
- Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
- The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31 Remain Frugal, 08-22-04
- Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 4, 08-22-04
- If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04
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