“Quality will forever be in style.”
—Joel Flory
(via Emerline)
Quality
Options
Smile baby.
You’re alive.
You’ve got options.
– Sonya Teclai
What 99% looks like
“Shun the non-believers and ship your work.”
– Seth Godin
A Good Photograph…
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
– Ansel Adams
Art of Government
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1774
(via)
Wherever You Are
“Wherever you are, make sure you’re there.”
— Dan Sullivan
Generosity
“Generosity takes effort.”
Read Seth Godin’s full post on The Right Effort of Generosity
Notice When You Are Happy
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Gratitude
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
– William Arthur Ward
(via)
Expand
some people
when they hear
your story.
contract.
others
upon hearing
your story.
expand.
and
this is how
you
know.– Nayyirah Waheed
Learn
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
– Bill Nye
Your Heart
‘Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.’
– Confucius
(via)
Know Yourself
“Learn to know yourself. To search realistically and regularly, the processes of your own mind and feelings.”
– Nelson Mandela
(via)
Pile of Good Things
“So what if instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”
– Rainbow Rowell
(via this #riskhappy Instagram Post)
Normal
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
– Ellen Goodman
(via this Instagram post)
Communication
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Get After That Light
“…Nothing new would be built if things were never broken. A wise man once said: there’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Get after that light.”
Generosity
“You don’t need to save up the goodwill and encouragement you offer to others. It will be automatically replenished, and it pays dividends along the way.”
– Seth Godin
Never Done
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
― Thomas Jefferson
(via)
Deep Work
“The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”
– Cal Newport
From the book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, via this post.
Change
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
— Max Planck
From this article.
Goals
“The reason most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals – not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them – we set our goal for the person we are when we set them.”
– Dan Gilbert
Communal Groupthink
“Most of our views are shaped by communal groupthink rather than individual rationality, and we cling to these views because of group loyalty. Bombarding people with facts and exposing their individual ignorance is likely to backfire. Most people don’t like too many facts, and they certainly don’t like to feel stupid.”
People Have Limited Knowledge. What’s the Remedy? Nobody Knows, by Yuval Harari
(via Bailey)