Quotes About Inspiration

Lazy: A Manifesto

If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even—on the rare miracle day—20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty.

if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.

now routinely listen to her. To have your mind explode, search "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 FULL Argerich Charles Dutoit" and check out minute 31.

empiezas a hacer esto consigues redefinirte como persona capaz de influir en el mundo.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits. Someone else has done your version of "success" before, and often, many have done something similar.

What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.

What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you've ever made? "If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

Rave reviews of the books Sapiens, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others

Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Eso es, por supuesto, lo que hicieron Jesús y muchas personas más.

Aim for the Heart, Not the Head "Lesson number one, when people ask me what [interviewing] tips would I give, is aim for the heart, not the head. Once you get the heart, you can go to the head. Once you get the heart and the head, then you'll have a pathway to the soul.

Make It Count became a video about chasing what matters to you. This was the entire message and point of the campaign to begin with. Make It Count ended up being Nike's most watched video on the Internet for several years.

Invierte un poco más de tiempo en hacerlo un poco más humano o (dependiendo del negocio) un poco más divertido, un poco más diferente, o un poco más lo que sea. Valdrá la pena, y ése es mi estímulo.» (Véase el mejor

Jan Kounen's "Ayahuasca Visions" on YouTube.

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I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class.

Yo procuro aprender del pasado sin dejarme inspirar por él. La gran pregunta que me hago siempre es, "¿Qué querían hacer y por qué funcionó?".

Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, "[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life." I then read Tara's first book, Radical Acceptance,