What I just heard

“I don’t interest myself in the why. I think more often in terms of the when, sometimes where, but always how much”.

What I just heard

 "if we just dwell on the bad things in the past, we'll never get over them. And if we just dwell on the good... we might never match them again." - Remenicinse Movie 

What I've just read

 There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can give...out attention to the opportunity before us". - Mark Van Doren 

What I just read

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into clarity... It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow 

What I've just heard

 "What’s most important in any creative endeavor is creation. You actually have to build the things. You actually have to try the experiments. You actually have to talk to the people and get as much as creative output as you can out there into the world. 99% of them are going to suck. Probably in your first try, a 100% of them are going to suck, but there’s always little nuggets that you learn from, that you can grab from, that you can pull from various things that you’ve tried, bolt then together in a new way, and try a hundred more things. And those are all going to fail, too.

 

But you’ll continue to run through that process over and over and over again, until something good comes out. And that something good is the result of the entirety of your creative output. And that’s exactly what you should be presenting to the world, and that’s what you should be striving to present to the world every single day." - Gameaster (a documentary about table top game masters) 

What I just heard from today

"It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hellscape of a world that matters most.

A book, a name, chicken soup… They help us remember that even in our darkest hour... life is still to be savored." - Altered Carbon, Season 2, Episode 7

What I've just heard today: love what you do

"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas," “I didn’t even know what a pancreas was”

The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.

I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life ad the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do if you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart you’ll know when you find it.”

- Steve Jobs - In a 2005 commencement address to students at Stanford University

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