(Source: bofransson)
"This story, like all good stories, isn’t about getting to the ending. Good stories are about the hero becoming the person that the ending can happen to."
Donna Bowman
(Source: The A.V. Club)
"Making this film was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It took five years and tormented me. I didn’t want to make it, and I wanted to give up many times along the way, but I also didn’t want this story to be out there in the words of someone other than the many people who lived it. Now it will be written about in many other people’s words, and I’m finally at peace with that. With the inaccuracies, with the new insights that I may not have arrived at on my own, with the broken telephone that happens when “concentric circles of people,” as my biological father says, begin telling their own stories without experiencing the original versions. That is what the film is about anyway and after five long years I’m actually looking forward to its arrival in the world, and the inevitable mess that comes from a story being told and retold."
Sarah Polley
(Source: blog.nfb.ca)
"You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life."
Warren Buffett, on why productive people have empty schedules
(Source: fastcompany, via awelltraveledwoman)
"‘Choose the things about which you genuinely care, and come to know them deeply and well. Form your own judgments, and constantly question them. In other matters, attempt instead to ascertain the consensus of expert judgment. It will be right far more often than not. The only alternative is to form your own judgment upon every question, and I can assure you that you will be correct far less frequently.
If you encounter an attack upon a conventional piety that troubles you, first assess its source. Has its author taken the time or trouble to know his subject deeply or well? Then, assess its content. Does it seem sophisticated and convincing? If it meets those two tests, ask yourself how much you care to know about the matter. You can always add it to the list of things you wish to know deeply. But if you feel that you simply don’t have the time, because of the realities of your life, then bracket your concerns and set them aside. The regnant consensus will do.’
Wise words. You simply can’t know everything, and you can’t always be right. But you can be honest and you can be brave."
Yoni Applebaum & Ta-Nehisi Coates
(Source: The Atlantic)
(via fuckyeahabandonedplaces)
"True quest is about agency, and the capacity to be driven past one’s limits in pursuit of something greater. It’s about desire that extends beyond what we may know about who we are. It’s a test of mettle, a destiny. A man with a quest, internal or external, makes the choice at every stage about whether to endure the consequences or turn back, and that choice is imbued with heroism. Women, however, are restricted to a single tragic or fatal choice. We trace all of their failures, as well as the dangers that befall them, back to this foundational moment of sin or tragedy, instead of linking these encounters and moments in a narrative of exploration that allows for an outcome which can unite these individual choices in any heroic way."
Vanessa Vaselka
(Source: theamericanreader.com)
Cowboy Junkies – Mining for Gold (4 plays)
"Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be."
Matt Berninger
(Source: thetigerleaps, via foucaultscat)
"I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they’re telling the truth. The fact is they’re using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they’re telling the truth about the human being—what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other."
(Source: theparisreview)
