digideth’s most recent Quotables

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love ..... If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. .... So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Write drunk; edit sober.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

In whatever you are doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Nothing positive comes from negative.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

One of [Stanley Kubrick's] films... is equivalent to 10 of somebody else's.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from.

The best way out is always through.

If you don't ask, you don't get