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  • #1
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.”
    Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

  • #2
    Naguib Mahfouz
    “Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life.”
    Naguib Mahfouz

  • #3
    Stanley Kubrick
    “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #4
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  • #5
    Joseph Campbell
    “You enter the forest
    at the darkest point,
    where there is no path.

    Where there is a way or path,
    it is someone else's path.

    You are not on your own path.

    If you follow someone else's way,
    you are not going to realize
    your potential.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

  • #6
    C.G. Jung
    “One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.”
    Carl Jung

  • #7
    “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
    Chuck Close, Chuck Close

  • #8
    Stanley Kubrick
    “I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #9
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #10
    Paul Rand
    “You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”
    Paul Rand

  • #11
    “I dream for a living.”
    Steven Spielberg

  • #12
    Stanley Kubrick
    “If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #13
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
    Viktor E. Frankl

  • #14
    Stanley Kubrick
    “Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #15
    “There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.”
    Armin Hofmann
    tags: life, work

  • #16
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
    Jordan B. Peterson

  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #18
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
    Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • #19
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #20
    Bob Dylan
    “Play it fuckin' loud!”
    Bob Dylan

  • #21
    C.G. Jung
    “Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”
    C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

  • #22
    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    John Keats, Letters of John Keats

  • #23
    Virgil
    “Fortune sides with him who dares.”
    Virgil

  • #24
    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #25
    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #29
    “Descartes’ s faith in his assertion “I think, therefore I am” may be superseded by a more primitive affirmation that is part of the genetic makeup of all mammals: “I feel, therefore I am.”34 Evolutionary”
    Jaak Panksepp, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols



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