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“You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.”
From this essay by Novelist Isabel Allende
Will always reblog this. The dream.
This looks amazing. Seems like a very gratifying life.
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I asked Bon Iver to describe a perfect day. ‘We spend the morning picking wildflowers in the field near the one-room schoolhouse. When the sun is high, we find a shade tree, spread out our Navajo blanket, and share a salad of organic arugula and some rosemary bread I baked. You wear a picture hat and a linen romper. I bring my banjo and play all your favorite Woody Guthrie songs. In the evening, we smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and drink whiskey from a jam jar. When the whiskey’s gone and we’ve smoked our last cigarette, we make love on the back porch with only the light of the fireflies to see each other by.’
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"At their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another. Both endeavor to solve our greatest mysteries through the power of imagination."
Bill O’Brien on art and science for The National Endowment of the Arts.
Einstein and Nietzsche would agree.
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"Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas."
A conversation with Jonah Lehrer on the cities chapter of his excellent book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. (via explore-blog)
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"Every really good creative person…whom I have ever know has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject under the sun in which he could not easily get interested-from, say, Egyptian burial customs to modern art. Every facet of life had fascination for him. Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the [creative] man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk."
James Webb Young, writing in his 1939 guide to producing ideas, articulates a timeless truth about the relationship between curiosity and creativity. (via explore-blog)
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"Marshall McLuhan said that, ‘we look at the present through a rear-view mirror,’ and we ‘march backwards into the future.’ Invention becomes our lens to imagine what is possible, and design is the road we follow to reach it. But, there is a snag in McLuhan’s view, because marching is no way to go into the future. It is too methodical and restricted. The world often subverts our best laid plans, so our road calls for a way to move that is messier, bolder, more responsive. The lightness and joy afforded by creating suggests that we instead dance."
Frank Chimero on what makes good design, a must-read. (via explore-blog)
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" To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable. ”
- Jeff Bezos"
“If everybody likes what you are doing, you’re doing it wrong.”
Words of wisdom from 20x200 founder Jen Bekman, excerpted from her fantastic Design Matters interview and immortalized in hand-lettered typography by Chris Piascik. A worthy addition to Advice to Sink in Slowly.
Texts from Hillary.
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