I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
—Jane Austen, carta para Cassandra Austen em 24 de Agosto de 1798
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To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.
—Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian, 31 de Outubro de 2009
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
—T.S. Eliot
“I’m not that smart”
Someone said that to me the other day and it was heartbreaking.
The number of tasks in our culture that require someone who was born with off-the-charts talent is small indeed.
Just about everything else we need people to do is the result of effort, practice and care. It’s true that variations of that work are easier for some folks, but no one finds all of it easy going.
The correct thing to say is, “I don’t care that much.” I don’t care enough to do the reading, to fail along the way, to show up, to make a promise, to learn as I go, to confront failure, to get better at the work.
All of that might be true.
But you’re almost certainly smart enough.
—Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog