Small, standalone quotes.
When you do things in the last minute, it only takes a minute.
Alexei A. Efros
Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness.
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
David Mamet
No man is a failure who has friends.
Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life
We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.
Teaching is the only way I know to understand something.
Christos Papadimitriou
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Looking for yourself in the water – searching, little man, among the hydroids
for your soul – looking for contentment in vanity. Are you better than Mack
that you should use the secret priestly words of science to cover the fact
that you have nothing to say?
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
"Work?" he said to me once, astonished, when I referred to our classroom
activities as such. "Do you really think that what we do is work?"
"What else should I call it?"
"I should call it the most glorious kind of play."
Donna Tartt
All of humanity's problems stem from man's
inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy.
Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled.
You will not know what it is to come home.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time.
The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal.
The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter,
the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place.
It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over.
It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Daydream about awesome things we can do.
This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual
and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work
as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing
a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has
for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a
human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished
work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why"
for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
Viktor E. Frankl
Listen; the work is behind the scenes.
Competition is the easy part.
Behind the scenes is where the work is done.
Usain Bolt
Medals are won in training...tournaments is (sic) where you pick them up
The knowledge that nothing matters, while accurate, gets you nowhere.
The planet is dying. The sun is exploding. The universe is cooling. Nothing's
going to matter. The further back you pull, the more that truth will endure.
But when you zoom in on Earth, when you zoom in to a family,
when you zoom into a human brain and a childhood and experience,
you see all these things that matter.
We have this fleeting chance to participate in an illusion called:
I love my girlfriend, I love my dog. How is that not better?
Knowing the truth that nothing matters can actually save you in those moments.
Once you get through that terrifying threshold of accepting that,
then every place is the center of the universe.
And every moment is the most important moment.
And everything is the meaning of life.