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Unused Creativity

07.21.2020

There’s no such thing as creative and not-creative beings. We are all creative. And the worst part is, unused creativity – creativity that’s been disowned – is not benign. It’s painful. It metastasizes and turns into dangerous things.

– Brené Brown

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Maturity

01.29.2018

– from Ray Dalio’s Principles.

Filed Under: wisdom Tagged With: alternatives, principles, Ray Dalio

compassion

01.27.2018

If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.

– Jack Kornfield

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Be robust

01.13.2018

Robustness is when you care more about the few who like your work than the multitude who hates it (artists); fragility is when you care more about the few who hate your work than the multitude who loves it (politicians).

– Nassim Taleb

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Tony Robbins / Tim Ferriss

04.03.2017

Filed Under: books, misc

BJ Miller

01.29.2016

Let death be what takes us, not a lack of imagination.

– BJ Miller

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Ben Zander leads

12.05.2015

It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming.

Benjamin Zander

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DFW, 1993

12.01.2015

… managing to be a really alive human being, and also do good work and be as obsessed as you have to be, is really tricky.

David Foster Wallace, 1993

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don’t ask Howard Thurman

11.29.2015

Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman (1899-1981)

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from Madness, Rack, & Honey

11.29.2015

Paul Valéry said: the opening line of a poem is like finding a fruit in the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before, and the poet’s task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall.

from Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey

Filed Under: asides, writing Tagged With: Mary Ruefle, Paul Valéry

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