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  1. “It’s not enough to be able to code, you have to do something with it. I don’t want to grow an old man, only making others rich. If you have a shit idea, I think you should try to make it anyway. That’s what I hope to start doing one day.”

    graygenesis.com
    meljohnso

  2. “Based on the research and findings of so many of the students and professors here, it’s clear that this trend is no accident. Not only do smart people ask questions when they don’t understand something, but they also ask questions when the world thinks it understands something. Smart people challenge the very limit of human understanding, and push the envelope of what’s possible farther than many people would argue it’s meant to be pushed. Smart people don’t take claims at face value, and smart people don’t rest until they find an explanation they’re comfortable accepting and understanding.”

    tmac721.tumblr.com
    meljohnso

  3. “Find the book about your field—probably the one named “An Introduction to [Your Field]“—and steal from it. Go to conferences and steal from the presenters. Follow industry leaders on Twitter and steal from them. Then, follow the links they give and steal from those. Read things from different content areas. Read things from different industries altogether. Steal widely and well, cite your sources when it’s appropriate, and adapt the ideas you’ve found to suit your own work. While you’re at it, let your sources know you’re stealing from them. Want to see more great ideas? Tell that person how much those great ideas mean to you.”

    contentsmagazine.com
    meljohnso

  4. “Reminds me of something my 9th grade English teacher once said to me when answering a question in class: Instead of mildly whispering the answer from my seat, recited as if a question mark were on the end…she told me to “Stand up! Speak up! If you’re going to be wrong, be wrong with conviction!” May we all have the conviction to “be brave enough to have a vision, sharp enough to see it clearly, and stubborn enough to make it happen.””

    www.strangenative.com
    meljohnso

  5. “Not only is workaholism unnecessary, it\'s stupid. Working more doesn\'t mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.”

    www.lanceramoth.com
    meljohnso

  6. “How does this affect you? Simple—if your idea is worth copying, it will be copied. And if you see a good idea, you should probably copy it too. Good ideas are being disseminated more rapidly than ever through social media—and competition is more fierce than ever with entrepreneurs and startups looking to the web to save them from the recession. It’s simply inevitable that you will be copied, and that you will copy in turn—sooner rather than later.”

    kiss.bo.lt
    meljohnso

  7. “You have to do something where you say, “I don’t know if I can pull this off.” And in fact that you really think, “I don’t think I can pull this off.” You want that feeling. So you’ll have to use new muscles and try something different. Fail, fail, fail, succeed, fail, fail, fail, succeed; That’s kind of the way it goes. I’m definitely a believer that you have to be as fearless as you can be. Usually the projects that work out best for me are the ones that I think to myself no one in the world is going to be interested in this except me. I’m starting a new one now, which I’m not going to tell you about, but I have that exact feeling, that I must be crazy to do this because no one will care about it but me. But I’m interested in it and so I’m doing it.”

    www.thedominoproject.com
    meljohnso

  8. “For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

    www.imdb.com
    ecleel

  9. “Moral: If your wife weeps on your wedding night, she deserves our admiration. If only other women were modest like her, but not so modest that they suicidally bite off their own nipples when they fart.”

    www.theawl.com
    protoslacker

  10. “You can be scared and still do it anyway. Regardless of whatever it is. And, you can. No. Really. You. You can do this. You can run toward the shitstorm, let it cover you with shit, but, still never let it stop you from running.”

    www.43folders.com
    meljohnso