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
Maturity
– from Ray Dalio’s Principles.
compassion
If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.
– Jack Kornfield
Be robust
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
Tony Robbins / Tim Ferriss
BJ Miller
Let death be what takes us, not a lack of imagination.
– BJ Miller
Ben Zander leads
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.
DFW, 1993
… 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
don’t ask Howard Thurman
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)
from Madness, Rack, & Honey
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