June 2012
9 posts
“Now, the nuisance of all this notion of Business Education, of a training for...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All is Grist (via gkchestertonquote)
This may be one of the stronger arguments out there for the essential value of a truly liberal education.
(via giftsoutright)
“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know...”
– St. Julian of Norwich (via recycledsoul)
“Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy...”
– Elizabeth Clarke Dunn (via notyourgramma)
“If in our moments of happiness, mastery, ecstasy, we say Yes to heaven and to...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, “The Sand in the Hourglass” (via garbandier)
“There’s an essay by David Foster Wallace called Television and U.S. Fiction....”
– Vito Aiuto, on The Welcome Wagon’s first album (via wesleyhill)
“The old and honorable idea of “vocation” is simply that we each are called, by...”
– Wendell Berry
“[Every one of us has] a private keep somewhere in the upper part of the head...”
– Ray Bradbury in a letter to Russell Kirk (via pejohnston)
“The most important thing for the creative innovator is not a ton of tasks to do...”
– Dave Lee, GTD sucks for creative work
This is a good reminder that all systems tend toward overreach.
It is gratifying to see someone else recognize that trying to manage creative work the same way one manages task-based work is merely an exercise in frustration. A previous pointy-haired boss...
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“Maimondes’s comments about time are typical of ancient, medieval, and...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books (via settledthingsstrange) 