“Even if all you can manage today is five minutes, a minute, a split second, practice You; Sitting With Yourself to know all that you need to know. Until one day, years later, you look around and there’s no Twitter. No avatars. No fucking way.”
Mehret Biruk
Quotes
“Establishing trust this year in your name will ensure you have income in 10 years.”
CJ Chilvers
Never be afraid to say, “thanks for your time,” and walk away—not as a bargaining chip, but as a source of sanity and professional growth.
Merlin Mann
Here at CREEM, we’re not building the biggest audience of digital tourists. Creem.com doesn’t have ads; we don’t publish free content. If you want SEO-friendly music news like dozens of other sites do, don’t waste your time, CREEM isn’t for you.
John Martin
“Although I live in a huge house, I keep a hotel room and go there at about 6:30 in the morning. I have a Roget’s Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, a yellow pad, and pens, and I go to work. I encourage housekeeping not to go in, since I leave at about one in the afternoon and never use the bed.”
Maya Angelou
Via ‘Apples, Baths, and Bestsellers: The Rituals of Creative Minds‘
“Social media distracted me, where I didn’t have the focus to be able to focus long enough on the work … social media was too distracting, where it constantly interrupted me and didn’t allow me to get to that place where I’m in the zone.”
Illustrator Samantha Cotterill from Can I Delete My Social Media?
“I have one piece of advice: if you read a book you love, tell other people about it. Tell them face-to-face. In your groupchat. On social media. Even on Goodreads. Every book is a lottery ticket, but the bezzlers are buying their tickets by the case: every time you tell someone about a book you loved (and even better, why you loved it), you buy a writer another ticket.”
Cory Doctorow
“Don’t write online for fame and glory. Oblivion, obscurity and exploitation are all but guaranteed.”
James Shelley
Via Patrick Rhone
“When should it be posted? If the event is tomorrow, the answer is not tonight. Most people won’t see it until two days from now – it’s too late. Like when restaurants post their daily specials at 6 pm – great, hope your dinner service was wonderful. I saw it at noon the next day, and it means nothing to me now, I wish I had known about it sooner so I could plan.”
Chelsea Bradley from ‘Your Content is Killing Your Brand‘
“Find people who inspire you and create dope shit together.“
Jesse Nyberg