The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Mary Oliver
It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.
Jean-Luc Godard
To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
Pema Chodron
Do not try to create and analyse at the same time. They're different processes.
Corita Kent
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
Junot Diaz
In order to make delicious food, you must eat delicious food. You need to develop a palate capable of discerning good and bad. If your sense of taste is lower than that of customers, how will you impress them?
Jiro Ono
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
Steve Jobs
You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.
Alexander Den Heijer
In many ways, the work of the critic is easy. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticisms designating it so.
Anton Ego
Stop asking people for directions to places they've never been.
Glennon Doyle
Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the thing you like to do the best. Don't think what you want to be, but what you want to do.
Richard Feynman
