Category: Quotation


  • I’m reading “Creative Quest” by Questlove, and I’m struck by his words on page 23: all people-who are all creative people, at least in some respect…have to learn to locate their ideas, how to execute them, how to feel about them once they’re released into the world, and how to cope with the reactions of…

  • My favorite quote from this video is: “By making trying to make them proud, I then end up making myself proud.” I like the thought of that virtuous cycle — building something to help others, which helps me, too. The video talks about how to get yourself unstuck when you’re in the “Short, Stall, or…

  • The only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

  • Apparently the actual quote is a little different… From “How to Winter”: Gandhi is often credited with saying “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” But this is a misleading and simplistic paraphrase of what he actually said: “We but mirror the world. The tendencies present in the outer world are to…

  • I just read that quote in “Mysticism” by Simon Critchley, and I feel like it captures something essential. Maybe I’ll write more about this later. It’s on page 10, just in case someone is looking for context or to find more info about it in the future