“Nurturing creativity is mostly about getting out of the way. I think it’s really hard to raise a creative child. It’s really easy to thwart a child’s creativity. So, the data show that having too many rules is one way to do that.”
“Twitter is the only social network where you don’t bring your existing friends/connections with you to start. Because of that, Twitter gives priority to people’s ideas. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. gives priority to people’s personal life updates.”
“If you can shore up the money part of your business, you can spend more time doing what you really love — the creative part of the job.”
“It wasn’t the things I’d saved that were important, it was the stories that went with them that gave them meaning. Could using the objects to tell the stories be the seed of a new ritual?”
“To be a chronic procrastinator is to be fooled repeatedly by the same illusions about how your mind works and how things actually get done.”
“If the unusual or novel steal our attention, unusual plus potential danger keeps our attention.”
“If you can’t start the business part time — you don’t deserve to quit yet.”
“Our whole life is solving puzzles.” — Erno Rubik
You deserve better.
“We are often afraid of putting ourselves out there and being rejected, so we think, ‘Well, I’ll just go and see what happens, but I won’t really try. I’ll wait until they hire me.’”