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“I think it’s good to have a lot of projects going at once so you can bounce between them. When you get sick of one project, move over to another, and when you’re sick of that one, move back to the project you left. Practice productive procrastination.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.�� —Gustave Flaubert”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Ask anybody doing truly creative work, and they’ll tell you the truth: They don’t know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up to do their thing. Every day.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“If you feel like you have two or three real passions, don't pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“As Salvador Dalí said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.�� —Craig Damrauer”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Writing a page each day doesn’t seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present. They completely overlook the fact that, actually, right now, everything's fine. You can see that quite clearly in your interrogation exercise. What was it that chap told you? It's not the violence that breaks you. It's the threat of it. So why not just stay in the moment?”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Psychopaths, rather than having an impairment in recognizing the emotions of others, indeed have a talent for it. And that the problem lies not in emotional recognition per se, but in the dissociation between its sensory and affective components: in the disconnect between knowing what an emotion is and feeling what it's like.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Psychopaths are shadowmancers',
the agent tells me, a large-scale map of the US dotted with timelines, hotspots and murderous crimson trajectories plastered across the wall behind his desk.
'They survive by moving around. They don't have the same need for close relationships that normal people do. So they live in an orbit of perpetual drift, in which the chances of running into their victims again is minimised.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“I’ve always maintained that if I wasn’t studying psychopaths in prison, I’d do so at the stock exchange,�� he enthused. “Without doubt, there’s a greater proportion of psychopathic big hitters in the corporate world than there is in the general population. You’ll find them in any organization where your position and status afford you power and control over others, and the chance of material gain.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“The goal was to center his mind on playing the shot at hand, rather than obsessing, at exactly the wrong moment, about the consequences.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Acknowledging that you do not have complete free will, or complete conscious control, actually increases the amount of free will and control you truly have.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“The unconscious evaluation of everything does appear to be a very old and primitive effect that existed long before we developed conscious and deliberate modes of thought.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“تبدو المصائب كبيرة تقبض الروح ثم يأتي ماهو أعتى و أشد فيصغر ما بدا كبيراً و ينكمش متقلصاً في زاوية من القلب و الحشا”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“ و كلما حاول أن يغالب ما في قلبه ازداد ما في قلبه اتقاداً”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“ما الخطأ في أن يتعلق الغريق بلوح خشب أو عود أو قشة؟ ما الجرم في أن يصنع لنفسه قنديلاً مزججاً و ملوناً لكي يتحمل عتمة ألوانه؟”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“أمسى البكاء مبتذلاً، ربما لأن الدموع صارت تستحي من نفسها، لا مجال.”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“و كأن همّاً واحداً لا يكفي أو كأنّ الهموم يستأنس بعضها ببعض فلا تنزل على الناس إلا معاً”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
― John Williams, Stoner