My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.
The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.
Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.
It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor. . . It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.