- The best way to criticize something is to make something better. from 101 Additional Advices
- Wondering what to do with your life? Here’s what I suggest: First priority: Your physical health. (No health → no life.) Second priority: Reasonable financial security. (No food → no health.) Third priority: Good relationships with friends and family. (Depressed → no mental health.) After that you can do whatever. The game you’re playing doesn’t have any rules, and there’s no way to win. From Dynomight
- "A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living,” Virginia Woolf wrote. Nothing is more vital to the capacity for change than the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind — that stubborn refusal to ossify, the courageous willingness to outgrow your views, anneal your values, and keep clarifying your priorities. It is incredibly difficult to achieve because the very notion of the self hinges on our sense psychological continuity and internal consistency; because we live in a culture whose myths of heroism and martyrdom valorize completion at any cost, a culture that contractually binds the present self to the future self in mortgages and marital vows, presuming unchanging desires, forgetting that who we are is shaped by what we want and what we want goes on changing as we go on growing." The Marginalian by Maria Popova on Sunday, May 19th, 2024
- Don’t waste the good days. If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else. Their schedule isn’t your schedule unless it helps you get where you’re going. Seth Godin
- For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs
- Rick told the class that you need four key elements for this kind of story. He learned this from Tommy Thompson, a top writer for Life magazine. “One is a pile-driving narrative with a lot at stake. It has to have one character, at least, who is larger than life. Second, it has to have a beginning, middle and end. And the third thing you need in a story is to take us into a fascinating world that readers know little about. And finally, it's a story idea that has to be compelling to you, the writer. Because if the story is not compelling to you, you'll never make it compelling to anybody else.
- "There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; they certainly have not yet come. Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow." Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, 13th Letter
- "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit
