Venture beyond the expected (quote)
“The easiest route to take is to glide in the direction of wherever fate pushes. But living at the mercy of circumstance makes you a passive participant in your own story. Without a fight against fate (aka the status quo), you’ll never venture beyond the expected.”
(Scott Belsky)
Graceful conduct (quote)
“Graceful conduct is the chief ornament of life; it gets you out of any tight situation.”
(Baltasar Gracián)
Example and opinion (quote)
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
(Paolo Coelho)
Listen well (quote)
“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.”
(Chinese Proverb)
Kindness and courage (quote)
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Online conformity (quote)
“We see ourselves as non-conformist, but I think all of this [online shaming] is creating a more conformist, conservative age… We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”
(Jon Ronson, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed)
Blogging and content marketing (quote)
Content marketing and blogging may be diametrically opposed to each other, but one isn’t bad and the other good. There’s just what’s right for how you want to operate and what you need your content to do for you or your audience. It’s just something to consider – does the intent of how you want to exist as a content creator online actually line up with how you’re operating? If it doesn’t, perhaps it’s time to change.
(Paul Jarvis)
Invisible turmoil (quote)
“It appear[s] like a calm existence [but] the turmoil is invisible.”
(Maira Kalman)
Expertise and knowledge (quote)
“With your expertise and knowledge, but you’ll never be an artist
And I’m harder on myself than you could ever be regardless
What I’ll never be is flawless, all I’ll ever be is honest
Even when I’m gone they’re gonna say I brought it”
(Eminem)
Choice (quote)
“People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all.”
(Ellen Ullman)
A Stoic (quote)
“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
(Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Original work (quote)
“To do original work: It’s not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.”
(Marc Andreessen)
Be good for something (quote)
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
(Henry David Thoreau)
Work and play (quote)
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”
(Lawrence Pearsall Jacks)
Work and play (quote)
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”
(Lawrence Pearsall Jacks)
Break the rules like an artist (quote)
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
(Pablo Picasso)
Populism today (quote)
“When we speak of ‘populism’ today, we sometimes mean nothing more than a politics that is audible as well as intelligible to the man in the street - or, to be precise, the man and woman slumped on their sofa, their attention skipping fitfully from flat-screen TV to laptop to smartphone to tablet and back to television, or the man and woman at work, sitting in front of desktop PCs but mostly exchanging suggestive personal messages on their smartphones.”
(Niall Ferguson)