“When launching a new [digital] product, let’s focus more on discussing its PURPOSE and less UI details and features.”
- Fictive Cameron
Purpose
Regret
“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.”
- Kathryn Schulz
(via Brain Pickings)
Brainwashed
“When exactly were you brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?”
- Seth Godin, Brainwashed
When asked…
When asked what he wished he would have known earlier, Seth Godin answered “It’s going to be ok.”
(via @rameadows)
Never too late
“You’re never too old to become younger.”
- Mae West
How to Scare Away Burglars
“Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button of your car. The alarm tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator.”
From this sobering list of 13 Things a Burglar won’t tell you.
(via fu**inghomepage.com)
Destination
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
- Henry Miller
(via baum kuchen)
Labor of Love
“A labor of love always pays off!”
- Scott Belsky
Business Opportunities
“Business opportunities are like buses;
there’s always another one coming.”
- Richard Branson
(via The 100$ Startup)
A Hole
“Hire slow, fire fast! It’s better to have a hole than an a-hole”
- Neil Blumenthal
on hiring at Warby Parker at #99conf
YES!
“Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two… Work is an expression of life.”
- Orson Welles
(via @brainpicker)
Make People Click Ads
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” – Jeff Hammerbacher, Early Facebook Employee
(via @alexismadrigal‘s #99conf talk)
Cities
“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.”
- Jonah Lehrer
(via explore)
Too Seriously
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
-Samuel Butler
Connecting Things
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
-Steve Jobs, 1996 Wired Interview
(via Schiffner)
Curiosity & Creativity
“Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.”
- Bejamin Salka
Benjamin is the CEO of Story Pirates in his CreativeMornings/NewYork talk.
Don’t Settle.
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and 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. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
-Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
Draw The Red Line
“The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.”
- Hugh McLeod
Being a Geek
“Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your level of enthusiasm measures up to others. If you like something so much that a casual mention of it makes your whole being light up like a halogen lamp, if hearing a stranger fondly mention your favorite book or game is instant grounds for friendship, if you have ever found yourself bouncing out of your chair because something you learned blew your mind so hard that you physically could not contain yourself — you are a geek.”
The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek
(via explore)
Know / Do
“The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you do with what you know.”
- Tony Wagner
(A quote by Tony Wagner at last week’s Penny Conference, organized by Skillshare)
New York City guidebook from 1916
“The first characteristic of New York, which impresses the stranger from abroad, and in a less degree from other American cities, is its atmosphere of breathless hast, its pervading sense of life keyed to an abnormal tension.”
…
“One direct consequence of this unending hurry, which the visitor is quick to feel, is a certain brusqueness and lack of civility as compared with other cities. Not that the great, motley, democratic middle class is deliberately rude to strangers; it simply lacks the time for the little courtesies of life, and grudges two words where one can be made to answer.”
Excerpts from a New York City guidebook from 1916.
(via Kottke)
Choice
“We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.”
- Chris Guillebeau
(Have you heard of his brand-new $100 Startup Book?)
Too Early
“ If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. ”
- Reid Hoffman
(via venturevoice)
