7/23 Maria Popova
- Create for yourself. That is rewarding and sustainable.
- Write to please just one person.
- Content is currency. That’s a bad thing bc it perverts your motives to create.
- Be content with yourself but never self satisfied
- Do great work simply because you love it.
- Van Gogh’s art didn’t take his life, it redeemed it. Without it he would have just died an average mad man.
- Formula for Greatness = consistency + great love of the work.
- Read to make sense of life. Read what will help you in the moment.
- *Read: the diaries of Henry David thorough
- Sitting is the new smoking.
- The really efficient laborer will not crowd his day with hard work.
- “those who work much, do not work hard.” H d thorou
- Interest is not affirmation of worth. Over time this does not make you proud inside.