May 2012
18 posts
“No American president has ever supported a major expansion of civil rights that...”
– NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg on President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage (via bobbbyg)
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via atackierpink)
“The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
“an idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements
...”
– Brain Pickings, A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939
“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the...”
– A conversation with Jonah Lehrer on the cities chapter of his excellent book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. (via explore-blog)
“Q: Why do you write strong female characters?
A: Because you’re still asking me...”
– Joss Whedon (via foyobli)
“Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a dull ache of not...”
– Jonah Lehrer in Imagine: How Creativity Works
“Its ok to make mistakes. It’s ok to fall down. Get up. Look sickening and...”
– Latrice Royale
April 2012
22 posts
“What some of us want is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in...”
– Stephen King scolds the superrich (including himself—and Mitt Romney) for not giving back, and warns of a Kingsian apocalyptic scenario if inequality is not addressed in America. Stephen King FTW! (via cheatsheet)
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“American voters are in danger of being forced to choose in November between a...”
– The Economist, Game On: The campaign looks likely to sharpen America’s divisions
yup, this is how i feel. i cringe at the dialogue to come the next 6 months
“The ego must have an enemy to fight against at all times, otherwise the ego...”
– RuPaul. yep.
“I enjoy making visual puns. … I don’t want to say it’s my...”
–
jonathan mak long in ad age
“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
– Marlon Brando (via bbook)
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“Always know who you are and deliver at all times”
– RuPaul in an ever increasing list of phrases to remember/live-by
“Governor Romney calls the President out of touch. Hey, how many of y’all have a...”
– VP Biden in New Hampshire today (via barackobama)
“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind...”
– John Cleese shares 5 factors to make your life more creative in this classic 1991 talk. (via explore-blog)
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really?
betty draeper puts on a few pounds due to a thyroid condition and the social sphere goes nuts with shallow hal-like comments!?
sexist much? i know she’s hard to like, but just like don she’s a total product of the age…an age that really sucked for women.
March 2012
33 posts
“40% of Gen Y participants in the Edelman study claimed a preference for buying...”
– Forbes, Why Big Retail Is Running Scared Of The Millennial Generation
Edelman 8095 is cited - yay!
“The virtue of youth, after all, is that the young don’t know enough to be...”
– Jonah Lehrer (via wearethedigitalkids)
“If you bring your baby into the office, I do not need to have ever met you...”
– Emily from XOJane in I Care Exceedingly About Your Baby
i must confess i share many of the same attitudes as Emily
“When I traveled extensively as first lady and I would go to countries with...”
– Hillary Clinton, in The Economist’s Q&A with Hillary Clinton
“The brain is just an endless knot of connections. And a creative thought is...”
– Jonah Lehrer in an NPR interview, On the relationship between creativity and originality — and being triggered by other people’s ideas