April 2011
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“In heaven all the interesting people are missing.”
– - Friedrich Neitszche [I can’t believe it took me this long to read his work…]
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A short list of unconventional ideas →
The Art of Non-Conformity Blog is my free spirit bible. Here’s a sampling: At all stages of life, people will gladly offer you unsolicited lists of things you “must” do, be, or have. Most of the time you can nod your head, walk away, and ignore them.
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand
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“You write in order to change the world…. The world changes according to the way...”
– -James Baldwin (write.write.write.write)
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“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not...”
–  Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source...”
– Joan Didion tells it like it is
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“The artist appeals to that part of our being… which is a gift and not an...”
– -Joseph Conrad This is the epigraph of the introduction to The Gift, Lewis Hyde’s  manifesto on creativity and the modern artist. Ironically, tonight I’ve started Lord Jim, said to be Conrad’s most famous work. I know very little going into this short stack, but my preference for...
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“I think that the fetishization of elite schools in American culture, the way in...”
– Jess Row (via austinkleon)
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How to see the world like Malcolm Gladwell →
For any fans of Blink, What the Dog Saw, Outliers, or The Tipping Point…. And for any psych nerds, he brings up theory of mind (without naming it as such) as a concept we learn as young’ns and quickly forget as adults. I’d agree. 
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Where Good Ideas Come From →
I agree, the coffee house is a place where ideas have sex. Also: Chance favors the connected mind. True stuff. (A TED lecture )
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The way I see it, too.
The way I see it isn’t necessarily the way you see it or the way it is or ought to be what’s more important is that we’re all looking for it and a way to see it - Desi Di Nardo
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“The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in...”
– Anne Morriss –  ”The Way I See It #76”
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On Being Wrong  →
Some noteworthy quotes from Kathryn Shulz’s speech on Being Wrong (& why it’s okay!) This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world. And when we act like it is, and we stop entertaining the possibility that we could be wrong, well that’s when we end up doing things like dumping 200...
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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with someone and they don’t...”
–  John Waters
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