"Nails that stick out get hammered down."
Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors The Dead
"...do not deny who you are. There will always be someone looking to beat you down. Don't do their job for them."
Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors The Dead
"If you can't laugh at yourself, you are so fucked."
Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair
"Grief reigns in the kingdom of loss. I refer to not only the loss of a loved one but also the loss of a hope, a dream, or love itself. It seems we don't finish grieving, but merely finish for now; we process it in layers."
Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair
"You can survive the unimaginable."
Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair
"Once you start picking and choosing what is relevant in a life, you edge closer to picking and choosing what lives are relevant."
Stephen Spotswood, Secrets Typed in Blood
"The world often defines women by the worst thing that's ever happened to us. It won't let us be otherwise."
Stephen Spotswood, Secrets Typed in Blood
"Do not postpone happiness."
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy talks addiction, art, and his favorite life lessons
"So much of life - so much - depends on what we choose to see."
Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.
"...it's taken me a while to see that the reward for good work is not that you get it done. It's that people notice and ask you to do more if it. The mountain keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it."
Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.
"...of course, this is the point. Work hard and reap the rewards. But I've noticed a swimming pool quality to my newsroom and, I suspect, to most workplaces. You can be the most talented, industrious employee in the joint. The colleague who works around the clock, the guy in constant demand, the one they can't live without, But if you do leave? The water closes up over you. The show must go on. Others will slot in and assume your responsibilities. The ripples overhead grow smaller and then smaller still, and in no time it's as if you were never there."
Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.
"When you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Chuchill (alleged)
Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.
"If you want to be a success, you need a couple years. You need to be bad, then you need to be good. Then when you're good you need to fail, and then when you fail, you're going to figure it out. I think experience is something that is not what happened to you. It's what you're going to do with what happened to you."
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets, 2023 NBA Champions
"Look for what you notice
but no one else sees."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"There's a reason we are drawn
to gazing at the ocean.
It is said the ocean provides
a closer reflection of who
we are than any mirror."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Create an environment
where you're free to express
what you're afraid to express."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Failure
is the information you need
to get where you're going."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When a work have five mistakes,
it's not yet completed.
When it has eight mistakes,
it might be."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Any framework, method, or label
you impose on yourself
is just as likely to be a limitation
as an opening."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"The synergy of a group
is as important -
if not more important -
than the talent
of the individuals."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"The universe
never explains why."
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"You know how it is. After a time, somethings that's happened, even if it isn't very nice, if you just don't talk about it, it sort of goes away. not that you forget about it, not really, but it isn't there anymore. ... It's the only way life can go, really, if you think about it."
Donna Leon, Drawing Conclusions