James Blake - Overgrown “I don’t wanna be a star / but a stone on the shore”
"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy."
"The real purpose of life is just to be happy—to enjoy your life. To get to a place where you’re not always trying to get someplace else. So many people spend their lives striving, trying to be someplace that they’re not, they never get to arrive."
“Creators need an immediate connection to what they create.”
Bret Victor | Inventing on Principle
"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
"If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."
“Normal is merely average.”
The Happiness Advantage. Funny and poignant talk by Shawn Achor.