July 2010
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Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they...
– Colin Firth
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Every angel is terrifying.
– Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke (via quote-book)
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I begin with my core belief—and the foundation of almost all wisdom...
– Anne Lamott, in Finding time - Sunset.com (via zenhabits)
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You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need...
– Franz Kafka
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
– William James (via kari-shma)
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I really wish I could have a pet - http://nyti.ms/cyLtpS
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Is James Franco For Real? →
New York Magazine’s reporter tries to answer this question. I just finished reading the article, and though I enjoyed it, I am still quite puzzled.
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So tired...
my eyes are rolling back into my head.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
– Plato (via josiefinee) (via quote-book)
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The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut →
Nora Ephron, screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally, writer/director of Julie & Julia, and author of the hilarious essay collection I Feel Bad About My Neck, writes some funny Girl With The Dragon Tattoo fan-fic for The New Yorker. Warning: this short piece contains spoilers!
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...
– Bertrand Russell | (via Star of the Sea) (via quote-book)
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It is too hot to sleep.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...
– Vincent Van Gogh (via kari-shma)
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Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
– Donald Miller (via quote-book)
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Chance is the fool’s name for Fate
– Fred Astaire (via quote-book)
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I have to balance my need to hustle, with my...
It’s tricky.
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give...
– Stephen Hawking (via insituthoughts) (via quote-book)
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
– Rumi (via oceanofmind) (via quote-book)
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When work feels overwhelming, remember that you're...
(via gatekeeper)
Ha!
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
– Jules Renard (via sometimesagreatnotion)
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All I want to do is sleep, lately. I’d take a nap right here on the keyboard if no one was looking.
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Feel now, think later, for more flowing creativity... →
psychotherapy:
Creating can be an emotional process. But there’s good emotional—even when you’re sad or the work epitomizes sorrow—and there’s bad emotional. That’s when your inner critic attacks you, calls you mean names, and causes you not to feel like creating anymore.
One of the ways you may slip out of flow when you’re creating something is if you don’t feel that what you’re producing—your...