Popova Maria Quotes

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

Maria Popova

#2. 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

#3. I've spent a part of my life focused on acting, so if there was an opportunity that I'm right for and I feel confident, I would definitely go for it.

Jessie Pavelka

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

Maria Popova

#5. Build pockets of stillness into your life.

Maria Popova

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone.

Aline Ohanesian

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

Maria Popova

#10. 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

#11. Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Plato

#12. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

J.B. Priestley

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Maria Popova

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

Maria Popova

#17. 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

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

Maria Popova

#19. I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

Stacy Keibler

#20. 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

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

Maria Popova

#22. The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.

Sharon Lee

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

Maria Popova