he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

We're here on Earth to fart around

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.