Maria Popova Quotes

#1. We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we are is simply a finely-curated catalogue of those.

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

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#3. Greatness is consistency driven by a deep love of the work.

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#4. This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.

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

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#6. There are really cool or funny videos, or visually stunning photos, and that's fine, but none of them really give you more when you close that tab, you know? I try to find stuff that a little bit, in a tiny way changes how you see something about the world.

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

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

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

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

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#11. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Build pockets of stillness into your life.

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#16. Guilt is the flip side of prestige and they're both horrible reasons to do something.

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#17. 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.

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