Category: Quotes & manifesto
Le poids des rêves
“Tes peurs ne sont que le poids de tes rêves” Et si c’était vrai? Et si on pouvait voir nos peurs, ce qui nous bloque et nous paralyse, comme étant des rêves déguisés, des ombres floues et obscures difficiles à identifier sous le brouillard, la distance, le vide entre maintenant et le moment où l’on… Continue reading Le poids des rêves
Making your unknown known
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe
Clarté
L'imagination est un pouvoir que nous possédons tous
New grounds
‘When we want the best for each other, when we don’t want to win if it means someone else will lose, when we know that my joy is yours and your success is mine, we all get our wishes’. This should be the basis of our new economy. Via.
Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
Stefan Sagmeister’s 20 commandements: 1. Helping other people helps me. 2. Having guts always works out for me. 3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now. 4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy. 5. Being not truthful always works against me. 6. Everything I do… Continue reading Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
Rules for being Amazing
Risk more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak you truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mystery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire… Continue reading Rules for being Amazing
Journal
« Le journal naît volontiers d’un malaise qui cherche à se résoudre dans l’archivage de soi. C’est pourquoi il est souvent le refuge ou le remède des consciences inquiètes, perturbées, incertaines d’elles-mêmes. » HUBERT AQUIN, Journal 1948-1971
Something to chew on
“…Around the age of fifty, my ideals and values began to change. Now I see great value in laziness, understood as giving up both effort and the attempt to justify my life. I have come to appreciate the teaching I have found in many religions that praises holy ignorance. And I have been discovering how… Continue reading Something to chew on
Freedom
“Freedom from fear is greatest freedom enjoyed by wo-mankind.” The Honorable Sir Robert Menzies, British Parliament, 1942
You must change your life
The thing one needs most
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form… Continue reading The thing one needs most
Henry Miller
Unfold
Inspiration of the day, by Sabrina Ward Harrison, posted by Christine Castro, see the original here!
Wednesday Inspire
Le Slow Design
J’ajoute cette semaine le manifeste du Slow Design aux manifestes présentés sur Vu d’ici. Guylaine en a parlé ce week-end, et je crois qu’il sera des plus inspirant pour vous tous de découvrir quelles sont les principales notions qui caractérisent le Slow Design. À garder tout près! Slow design sur Treehugger: (…) Slow Design, much… Continue reading Le Slow Design
Steve Jobs
3 intense and authentic short stories about and by Steve Jobs, almost nothing about Apple: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your god, destiny, life, karma, or… Continue reading Steve Jobs
The science of enjoying life
“Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered “useless,” will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to… Continue reading The science of enjoying life
Shirley MacLaine
“We are revolving around religions instead of revolving around expanding our own consciousness.” Shirley MacLaine in a interview with Whitley Strieber.
Opening
We should be keeping people out of stores but we all have to work with business
Guylaine pointe vers cette édition du Iconeye qui rassemble les manifestes de quelques personnalités influentes du monde du design : Peter Saville, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, John Maeda, Stefan Sagmeister. Le premier manifeste est de Peter Saville, qui porte un regard pessimiste et critique sur les fondements du monde du design, et qui à mes… Continue reading We should be keeping people out of stores but we all have to work with business
David Lynch
Slowing down
How to be creative
How to be creative, a manifesto by Hugh MacLeod. Download the manifesto here. Found on Guylaine’s blog.
Opportunity
The greatest opportunities occur far sooner than most people are ready to notice them. (…) Some of the fun in life and business is to be at the leading edge – on the curve instead of behind the curve. — Realize that by the time you can fully explain, describe, or articulate something, most the… Continue reading Opportunity
Shaun McNiff
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed. Shaun McNiff.
Anaïs Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin.
défricher
Pour frayer un sentier nouveau, il faut être capable de s’égarer. (To clear a new path, it is necessary to be able to be mislaid.) Jean Rostand (via guylaine)
Holidays blogging
I must admit, the content of this blog is quite different from what it is during the rest of the year. I am on holidays, I am rested, at peace, out of this buzy-ness but still full of ideas and fire burning inside. Filling my head with words i love to read, authors that inspire… Continue reading Holidays blogging
Expand
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anaïs Nin
Ordinary
“We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our mind that open or close.” Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg.
Trust
‘Love it all. The fear, the excitement, the guilt. The power for change, the unworthiness, the hunt, feelings, the euphoric feelings, the anger, the movement, the whole process, it’s know as life.’ Unknown. From ‘The true and the Questions’ by Sabrina W. Harrison.
Next. Et maintenant.
In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. In casual practice, the term came to prominence in the general press as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that… Continue reading Next. Et maintenant.
Massive Change
“The future of global design is fundamentally collaborative. In this condition there is no room for censorship.” – Massive Change More on meïdia’s blog.