Thought Shrapnel

I don’t think there’s an artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.

I don’t think there’s an artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

(Terry Pratchett)

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.”

(Albert Einstein)

“One already wet does not fear the rain.” (Turkish proverb)

“No man is free who is not master of himself.” (Epictetus)

“Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.”

(Og Mandino)

"Whenever we get swept up in the self-reinforcing momentum and seductive logic of some new technology, we forget to ask what else it might be doing, how else it might be working, and who ultimately benefits most from its appearance. Why time has been diced into the segments between notifications, why we feel so inadequate to the parade of images that reach us through our devices, just why it is that we feel so often feel hollow and spent. What might connect our choices and the processes that are stripping the planet, filthing the atmosphere, and impoverishing human and nonhuman lives beyond number. Whether and in what way our actions might be laying the groundwork for an oppression that is grimmer yet and still more total. And finally we forget to ask whether, in our aspiration to overcome the human, we are discarding a gift we already have at hand and barely know what to do with."

“You needn’t settle for a mediocre life just because the people around you did.”

(Joshua Fields Millburn)

“One who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

(Confucius)

“Ability and greatness must be measured by virtue, not by good fortune.” (Baltasar Gracián)

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

(Stephen Covey)

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.”

(Dalai Lama)

“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”

(Oscar Wilde)