June 8th, 2011
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
-Susan Sontag
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
-Thomas Edison
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
-Will Durant
There is no progress without deviance.
-Frank Zappa
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
-Gregory Bateson
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
-Howard Aiken
It’s not the strongest that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-Charles Darwin
If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.
-Lorraine Teel
It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
-Clay Shirky
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
-Pema Chödrön
Once you label me you negate me.
-Soren Kierkegaard
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
-Tom Hopkins
Between stimulas and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
-Victor Frankl
Admitting ignorance is a high-level cognitive ability.
-Elory Rozner
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
-David Bohm
Be good to each other.