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The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You go at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing this isn't going to work. And it does! The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You go at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing this isn't going to work. And it does! – Saul Bass

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You go at it again.
Then you desperately stab at it, believing this isn't going to work. And it does!

– Saul Bass

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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction. Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction. – Francis Picabia

Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.

– Francis Picabia

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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. – Theodore Roosevelt

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

– Theodore Roosevelt

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When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create. When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create. – Why The Lucky Stiff

When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create.

– Why The Lucky Stiff

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What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. – Lisel Mueller

What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious.

– Lisel Mueller

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

– Henry Adams

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Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

– Theodore Roosevelt

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If you show up for the muse consistently, then she will start showing up for you. If you show up for the muse consistently, then she will start showing up for you. – Mary Oliver

If you show up for the muse consistently, then she will start showing up for you.

– Mary Oliver

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A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. – James Allen

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

– James Allen

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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Content is like Water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Content is like Water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. – Josh Clark

Content is like Water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.

– Josh Clark

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. – Robert A. Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch ... #quote

This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in. This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in. – John Maeda

This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do ... #quote

In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. – Herman Hesse

In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force.

– Herman Hesse

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. – Guy de Maupassant

Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

– Guy de Maupassant

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The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. – Seymour Papert

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

– Seymour Papert

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To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. – Jerry Seinfeld

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

– Jerry Seinfeld

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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun-tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

– Sun-tzu

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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. – Bernard M. Baruch

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

– Bernard M. Baruch

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Less is more. Less is more. – Robert Browning

Less is more.

– Robert Browning

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Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. – Sun-tzu

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

– Sun-tzu

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I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. – Donna Tartt

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

– Donna Tartt

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We feel better when we find ways to make other people feel better. Kindness towards others is like a sandwich that feeds two. We feel better when we find ways to make other people feel better. Kindness towards others is like a sandwich that feeds two. – Mike Monteiro

We feel better when we find ways to make other people feel better. Kindness towards others is like a sandwich that feeds two.

– Mike Monteiro

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Rather be dead than cool. Rather be dead than cool. – Kurt D. Cobain

Rather be dead than cool.

– Kurt D. Cobain

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Only when I allowed myself to feel the emotions pent up for so long inside me did I start extricating myself from my own past. Only when I allowed myself to feel the emotions pent up for so long inside me did I start extricating myself from my own past. – Alice Miller

Only when I allowed myself to feel the emotions pent up for so long inside me did I start extricating myself from my own past.

– Alice Miller

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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. – Jodi Picoult

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

– Jodi Picoult

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

– Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

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Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. – Stefan Sagmeister

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

– Stefan Sagmeister

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In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. – Herman Hesse

In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force.

– Herman Hesse

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