A really neat quote from Bruce Sterling:
Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a puffer fish…. Learn about the stuff that was buried because it was too experimental or embarrassing or inexplicable.
I like that. I like ( Read more... )

Going back through old RSS feed news and whatnot I came across this interview with Steven Soderbergh. From that comes this quote regarding clarity:

"The hardest thing in the world is to be good and clear when creating anything. It's the hardest thing in the world. It's really easy to be obscure and elliptical and so fucking hard to be good and ( Read more... )

"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. ( Read more... )

From Comfortable With Uncertainty
by Pema Chodron
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggression at our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideas of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people people think we ought to be. We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor ( Read more... )