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Sep 02, 2010
“ The real risk is in not changing. I have to feel that I’m after something. If I make money, fine. But I’d rather be striving. It’s the striving, man, it’s that I want.
— John Coltrane, quoted in Paul D. Zimmerman’s “Death of a Jazz Man”, Newsweek, July 31, 1967. (via mlarson)
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Jul 19, 2010
“ Don’t say anything to your boss, your staff, your teammate, your supplier or your customer that you wouldn’t say to your spouse or your friend.
— Daniel Pink, on speaking like a human at work
Jul 08, 2010
“ It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding. One is by doing very good work, the other is by cheating. Both are much too simple to require any literary explanation.
— G. K. Chesterton, “The Fallacy Of Success” (via Mark)
Jul 07, 2010
“ You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn’t do that. I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
Jul 04, 2010
“ Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.
Jun 29, 2010
Paul does the great comic, All Over Coffee.
I never know what to call myself really. I call myself a cartoonist because it’s what I’ve wanted to do for as long as I can remember, it’s what I always return to, and it’s how I think. But I don’t really work in that field. I think I’m an artist and a writer, or more appropriately, an artist who writes.
As opposed to a writer who draws…
Jun 28, 2010
Jun 07, 2010
“ Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear — what they want to hear is here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script, here’s how you do this — but I always say, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” If somebody’s thinking, “How can I be really good?”, people are going to come to you. It’s much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.
— Steve Martin (via)
May 21, 2010
“ Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
— Drew Carey
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