Notes for my life

"When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:51:50 -0400

“When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love.”

- The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)

"Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:51:04 -0400

“Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That’s really important.
It’s to find out if you’re going to be a writer or not, because that’s one of the most important lessons.
Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that’s the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.”

- Tad Williams (via writingquotes)

sexismandthecity: I’m on my way

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:49:22 -0400

sexismandthecity:

I’m on my way

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Sat, 19 May 2012 06:48:43 -0400

"Whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:47:17 -0400

“Whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.”

- Conan O’Brien addressing the graduating class at Dartmouth in 2011, one of 5 ½ timeless commencement speeches. (via explore-blog)

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Sat, 19 May 2012 06:43:24 -0400

"What an overwhelming lesson to all artists! Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:43:07 -0400

“What an overwhelming lesson to all artists! Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous, solution. Be brave, be brave!”

- Isak Dinesen, “The Deluge at Nordenay” (via James Reese Books)

"Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:37:36 -0400

“Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”

- Louise Erdrich (via kari-shma)

"An untended garden quickly becomes a field: plant what you want to grow. Have partners, but don’t do..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:35:37 -0400

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An untended garden quickly becomes a field: plant what you want to grow.
Have partners, but don’t do the same things: make sure you both do something you enjoy.
Hire people for what they can teach you, not for what you can teach them.
Everyone should be able to take criticism: creative trust is built on critical honesty.
Design is only one part of the puzzle: savor the discussion, development, debate, and dissemination of your work just as much as the making of it.
Goals may be arbitrary, but not having them will be maddening when there’s no one else to tell you if you’re doing a good job: set 3-month, 6-month, and 1-year goals at the outset.
When you take your favorite clients out to lunch, it’s a good time to propose what you’d like to do together next.
Knowing more designers doesn’t necessarily translate into having good clients: spend your development time wisely.
Be known for something: it helps.
You will never work harder than when you’re building something: find balance. Sometimes the best way to solve a creative problem is to take a vacation or read a book.

”

- Advice on design entrepreneurship from Rob Giampietro.

(↬ Swiss Miss)

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Sat, 19 May 2012 06:32:39 -0400

mansitrivedi: Apple’s welcome letter for new hires. Can the...

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:07:54 -0400

mansitrivedi:

Apple’s welcome letter for new hires.

Can the same be said of the company you’re building?

via brycedotvc

explore-blog: Characters you need for an epic tale by Tom...

Wed, 02 May 2012 06:17:30 -0400

explore-blog:

Characters you need for an epic tale by Tom Gauld, who brought us the wonderful Both.

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Wed, 02 May 2012 06:15:24 -0400

"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 06:14:24 -0400

“Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.”

- Jean Baudrillard (via m0su)

"Design gains value as it moves from hand to hand; context to context; need to need. If all of this..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:27:35 -0400

“Design gains value as it moves from hand to hand; context to context; need to need. If all of this movement harmonizes, the work gains a life of its own, and turns into a shared experience that enhances life and inches the world closer to its full potential.”

- Frank Chimero in The Shape of Design. (via explore-blog)

eatsleepdraw: Pug alphabet A-Z. See accompanying rhyme and...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:24:40 -0400

eatsleepdraw:

Pug alphabet A-Z. See accompanying rhyme and individual letters at my blog Bah Humpug.

tobia: Feist The Bad In Each Other2011/12 YES.

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:29:15 -0400

tobia:

Feist
The Bad In Each Other
2011/12

YES.

"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from..."

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:22:14 -0400

“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.”

- Norman Mailer (via libraryland)

quiethouses: “The Book of the Future” by Grant Snider

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:48:43 -0400

quiethouses:

“The Book of the Future” by Grant Snider

"Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder..."

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:46:04 -0400

““Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.””

- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via mirroir)