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11 Sep 17
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When I thought about what it meant to call someone a hero, it meant I'd decide what to do by asking what they'd do in the same situation. That's a stricter standard than admiration.
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Everyone on the list had two qualities: they cared almost excessively about their work, and they were absolutely honest. By honest I don't mean trustworthy so much as that they never pander: they never say or do something because that's what the audience wants. They are all fundamentally subversive for this reason, though they conceal it to varying degrees.
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Jack Lambert
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what made him so good was that he was utterly relentless. He didn't just care about playing well; he cared almost too much. He seemed to regard it as a personal insult when someone from the other team had possession of the ball on his side of the line of scrimmage.
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Kenneth Clark
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What really makes him stand out, though, is the quality of his ideas. His style is deceptively casual, but there is more in his books than in a library of art monographs. Reading The Nude is like a ride in a Ferrari. Just as you're getting settled, you're slammed back in your seat by the acceleration. Before you can adjust, you're thrown sideways as the car screeches into the first turn. His brain throws off ideas almost too fast to grasp them. Finally at the end of the chapter you come to a halt, with your eyes wide and a big smile on your face.
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Leonardo
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much of the best stuff isn't made for audiences, but for oneself. You see paintings and drawings in museums and imagine they were made for you to look at. Actually a lot of the best ones were made as a way of exploring the world, not as a way to please other people. The best of these explorations are sometimes more pleasing than stuff made explicitly to please.
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No one else, before or since, was that good when no one was looking.
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Robert Morris
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It doesn't seem like that much extra work to pay as much attention to the error on an idea as to the idea itself. And yet practically no one does.
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P. G. Wodehouse
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to write as he wanted to, he had to commit to being despised in his own lifetime.
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Wodehouse didn't give a damn what anyone thought of him. He wrote exactly what he wanted.
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Alexander Calder
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Ultimately the point of art is to engage the viewer. It's hard to predict what will; often something that seems interesting at first will bore you after a month.
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Jane Austen
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in her novels I can't see the gears at work. Though I'd really like to know how she does what she does, I can't figure it out, because she's so good that her stories don't seem made up. I feel like I'm reading a description of something that actually happened.
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reading Austen is like reading nonfiction. She writes so well you don't even notice her.
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Steve Jobs
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Most CEOs delegate taste to a subordinate. The design paradox means they're choosing more or less at random. But Steve Jobs actually has taste himself
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Isaac Newton
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It's so easy to get distracted working on small stuff. The questions you're answering are pleasantly familiar. You get immediate rewards—in fact, you get bigger rewards in your time if you work on matters of passing importance. But I'm uncomfortably aware that this is the route to well-deserved obscurity.
To do really great things, you have to seek out questions people didn't even realize were questions. -
You only get one life. Why not do something huge?
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11 Jan 15
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No one else, before or since, was that good when no one was looking.
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16 Jan 11
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To do really great things, you have to seek out questions people didn't even realize were questions.
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21 Jun 08
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22 May 08
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21 May 08
Adam Crowe"To do really great things, you have to seek out questions people didn't even realize were questions. You only get one life. Why not do something huge?"
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07 Apr 08
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05 Apr 08
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