Category: Influences
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Leibovitz on Nature
Reading Time: 1 minuteNature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. — Annie Leibovitz
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Throwing Stones At Lions
Reading Time: 1 minuteA person only gets to throw one stone at a lion. — Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche
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McCarthy on Critics
Reading Time: 1 minuteIt’s easy to take a swipe. And I’m like, just go the other way. Build it up. Put a little love and kindness in the world, and it does good things when you do that. — Melissa McCarthy
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Crowfoot’s Last Words
Reading Time: 1 minuteWhat is life? It is the flash of a firefly … the breath of a buffalo … the shadow which … loses itself in the sunset. — Crowfoot’s last words, 1890
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Jobs on Settling
Reading Time: 1 minuteYour work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t…
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Standing Bear on Nature
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So, he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence. — Standing Bear, Sioux Chief
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Poehler on Failure
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe question you have to ask yourself is: ‘How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?’ — Amy Poehler