Top 31 Maria Popova Quotes
#1. The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.
Pankaj Mishra
#3. 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.
Maria Popova
#4. Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.
Maria Popova
#5. Greatness is consistency driven by a deep love of the work.
Maria Popova
#6. Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.
Joe Abercrombie
#7. 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.
Maria Popova
#8. Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.
Maria Popova
#9. 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.
Maria Popova
#10. Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.
Maria Popova
#11. Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.
Maria Popova
#12. In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.
Maria Popova
#14. Self-styled pioneers braved the dirt and crime of rundown neighborhoods where, in the early 1980s, they could buy as much as five thousand square feet in a dilapidated brownstone for as little as $25,000.
Jonathan Soffer
#15. What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.
Maria Popova
#16. 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.
Maria Popova
#17. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
Maria Popova
#18. You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
Martin Parr
#19. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
Georges Braque
#20. I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!
Christopher Titus
#21. 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.
Maria Popova
#22. 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.
Maria Popova
#23. If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.
Joan Crawford
#24. If only I could die right now, then I would never have to live without him, I would just be gone ...
Tarryn Fisher
#26. Build pockets of stillness into your life.
Maria Popova
#27. I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.
Charles Comiskey
#28. For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame ... it's the last thought in the process.
Sophie Calle
#29. That was the strangest timing. The strangest. It's like fate, if I believed in fate. I don't know. Maybe I believe in fate now.
Stephanie Perkins
#30. Guilt is the flip side of prestige and they're both horrible reasons to do something.
Maria Popova
#31. 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.
Maria Popova
