“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.” – Jean Genet, Born Dec. 19, 1910. Let’s talk about idols. Idolization. Idolatry. Let’s talk about you in that role. It’s yours if you want it. But most people don’t understand how […]
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“If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it’s hard to beat bread and butter.” – Jacques Pepin, Born Dec. 18, 1935. Something simple, like bread and butter – can be elevated to a level that is sublime. All it takes is for the two components of that simple recipe to be extraordinary. I love
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“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.” – Ludwig van Beethoven, Born Dec. 17, 1770. The main thing I like about this advice is that it’s about putting in the work. Not on some kind of 24/7
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“We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.” – Margaret Mead, Born Dec. 16, 1901. What are you waiting for? Some new software to be released? A new laptop to work on? One more big client to fund your escape? A perfect idea to put your passion into? Another golden once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
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“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.” – Freeman Dyson, Born Dec. 15, 1923. We work in a field that frequently tries to force creativity and invention
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“Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.” – Nostradamus, Born Dec. 14, 1503. Man, this dude was a genius of bullshittery. There wasn’t anything “hereditary” about his “gift” of “prophecy”. Basically, he would write a metric shit-ton of vague nonsensical poems, and then eventually some real-world event could be
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“Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.” – Heinrich Heine, Born Dec. 13, 1797. I don’t think I am a genius. You’re probably not one, either. But discounting that, there is something for everyone to grab onto in this quote. Whatever your craft is, study
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“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.” – Gustave Flaubert, Born Dec. 12, 1821. This is one that will be useful to people who have trouble with making your marketing jive sound authentic. It’s all about
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“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.” – Hector Berlioz, Born Dec. 11, 1803. Write. Everything. Down. It’s a lot easier if you are already writing when you’re having the idea. So write all the time. Even if you don’t have an idea.
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“Attitudes are more important than facts.” – George MacDonald, Born Dec. 10, 1824 I can’t persuade anyone with JUST the facts. Facts are boring. Static. Motionless. Some dummies keep saying we live in a post-fact age. I think that’s dangerously untrue. But I digress. If facts alone could close the sale, I’d still be a
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