Quotes
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Here I am… gazing whole hours at the Maison Carrée, like a lover at his mistress. Thomas Jefferson
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INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP’s conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge…
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A world that has produced a Mozart is a world worth saving. Franz Schubert
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I am an honest artist. What I write is intended to reach the customer—and affect him, if possible with pity and terror … or at least divert the tedium of his hours. I never hide from him in a private language, nor am I seeking praise from other writers for ‘technique’ or other balderdash. I…
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Turning your phone off at the door is the new taking your shoes off at the door. Clayton Cubitt
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There is a form of Japanese pottery called Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired using gold dust. This kind of pottery takes what many people would consider a flaw and draws attention to it. It acknowledges a truth that our flaws create our unique beauty. Kintsugi
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I download a lot of books, but they just sit there and get lost in my Kindle. I forget about them. So I developed this hack: I add books I want to read to my Amazon Wishlist. Every once in a while I dump that into Fancy Hands and reserve all the books at the…
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In the flawed there lies great beauty: Torn pages. Crackles on vinyl. Scratches over celluloid frames. The limitations of physical media become an inescapable component of the art we consume. They place the fiction within a reality, and reveal them both to be susceptible to the ravages of time. More precisely, they expose the beauty…
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I was raised up believing I was somehow unique / Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see / And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be / A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me. “Helplessness Blues” by Fleet Foxes I like these lyrics.
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Good design is seldom accepted. It has to be sold. Julius Shulman
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When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it…
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On the flights to games, I read history books. Basically, I was a secret nerd who just happened to also be good at basketball. … If I could, I’d tell that nerdy Kareem to suck it up, put down that book you’re using as a shield, and, in the immortal words of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard…
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You’re only as good as your last comp. Dann Petty I’m reminded of this quote a lot. I was looking through some old Photoshop files today—I remembered defending some of those design choices when I could have listened to feedback, and then iterated over and over to get it right. It made me feel humbled…
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of Le Petit Prince. Via Zach Klein.
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If you have goals in life, you’re probably going to need some sort of organization. Even if it’s an organization of just you, it’s still helpful to think of it as a kind of machine. You don’t need to do every part of the process yourself — you just need to set up the machine…