#kin

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#available #doing #even #give #go

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#any #content #dollar #kind #natural

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#first #how #job #king #minister

On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#channel #escape #espn #find #golf

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#believe #everything #harried #i #i am

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#big #doing #film #horrible #making

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to diem it's also the positive that you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #perspective #positive-thinking #age