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#1

“Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City

tags: character-defining, comics, humor

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#2

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
― Bill Willingham

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#3

“I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”
― Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen Book), Alan Moore

tags: comics, life, time

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#4

“When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.”
― Max Landis, Superman: American Alien (2015-2016) #1 (Superman: American Alien

tags: comics, experience, superman, wisdom

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#5

“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”
― Lois Lowry

tags: inspirational

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#6

“When the fresh patient comes to me the usual query is: "Will I be able to speak like the King?" and my reply is: "Yes, if you will work like he does." [says Lionel Logue]”
― Mark Logue, The King's Speech

tags: efforts, results

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#7

“90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives”
― Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

tags: branding, marketing, retail, retailing

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#8

“No matter how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story. As”
― Martin Lindstrom, Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends

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#9

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

tags: knowledge, pursuit, success, way

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#10

“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

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#11

“You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

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#12

“Charisma has nothing to do with energy; it comes from a clarity of WHY. It comes from absolute conviction in an ideal bigger than oneself. Energy, in contrast, comes from a good night’s sleep or lots of caffeine. Energy can excite. But only charisma can inspire. Charisma commands loyalty. Energy does not.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

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#13

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#14

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: fear, freedom, responsibility

1783 likes

#15

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

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#16

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time

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#17

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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#18

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent

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#19

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: loss, love, maltreatment, men, mistreatment, separation, sherlock-holmes, women

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#20

“Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.”
― Harvey Specter Suits

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#21

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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#22

“Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true—that aren't really how we feel—but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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#23

“Everything...affects everything”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: suicide, teen, ya

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#24

“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success

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#25

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

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#26

“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, curiosity, george-r-r-martin, tyrion-lannister, wall

2318 likes

#27

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

5351 likes

#28

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling

1547 likes

#29

“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
― Seth Godin

tags: art, photography, seth-godin

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#30

“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.

The job is not the work.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

tags: art, artists, commitment, conformity, dedication, job, linchpin, nonconformity, passion, work, workplace

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