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Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
Caterina Fake (via @hooey)
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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I’ve always believed that the poem inside is perfect; I have a very clumsy retrieval process for getting it out.
Carolyn Kizer via @ParisReview
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To feel inspired essentially means to realize I Can because You Do.
Jan Verwoert in his essay Exhaustion and Exuberance: Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform, found via the Association for Independents in Radio
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles DuBois, Belgian author and naturalist, via @Kripalu