The quotes on my wall | thesephist.com
My desktop wallpaper loops through a handful of screenshots of quotes I’ve collected over the years. These quotes push on my worldview in just the right places to help me approach my work in ways I find encouraging and energizing, so I like to have them in the periphery of my workspace like virtual post-it notes. I prefer screenshots to purely textual excerpts because I think screenshots preserve a kind of texture of the original context in which I found the idea, whether Twitter or a magazine article or a blog. In no particular order, here are the ones I thought worth sharing with you. I’m drawn to Werner Herzog’s pursuit of a poetic kind of truth and focus on the human experience. Here, he speaks of a “deeper illumination” beyond the facts: and here, finding harmony in chaos. This one reminds me that, even in the most disorienting and confusing moments, some part of me usually knows the right thing to do, if I listen closely. I really enjoy sci-fi stories set in a world that hasn’t j
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