Quotes by Maria Popova

Maria Popova

Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman’s undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

Art

Hands

Illustration

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

Consistently

Curious

Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life’s greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

Giving

Motivational

Opportunity

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.

Anxiety

Creating

Self

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

Entrepreneur

Pockets

Stillness

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

Ideas

Motivational

Order

But most weeks I’ve gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form, and then my day begins. I usually try to do most of my writing earlier in the day because I sort of lump out later on.

Book

Long

Writing

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

Patterns

Pieces

Views

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

Important

Packaging

World

Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility, for awakening to the greatest rewards of living . . . The Road to Character is an essential read in its entirety-Anne Lamott with a harder edge of moral philosophy, Seneca with a softer edge of spiritual sensitivity, E. F. Schumacher for perplexed moderns.

Character

Philosophy

Spiritual

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Acceptance

Age

Agency

Air

Alive

Anxiety

Art

Bad Day

Believe

Book

Capacity

Castles

Character

College

Compassion

Consistently

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Curious

Different

Discipline

Doubt

Entrepreneur

Fall

Feels

Funny Videos

Giving

Hands

Home

Ideas

Illustration

Important

Inspiration

Integrity

Interaction

Intricate

Jobs

Journey

Joy

Leaving

Life Is

Listening

Locks

Long

Love Is

Moments

Morning

Motivational

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Quotes by Maria Popova

Maria Popova

Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman’s undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

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

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.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

But most weeks I’ve gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form, and then my day begins. I usually try to do most of my writing earlier in the day because I sort of lump out later on.

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

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

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