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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“[Digital] objects constrained using sensible, physical rules, help establish a clear model.”
— Pasquale D’Silva, Spatial Interfaces — Elepath Exports
Tagged: Material Design, Design
“The open web is free—free like language is free, like consciousness is free. Freedom not so much as a right, but as a technical and inalienable fact.”
— Robinson Meyer, The Forrest Gump of the Internet
Tagged: Open Web, Blogging, The Old Internet
“Today we are not so much communicating as miscommunicating. Or failing to communicate. Or choosing to communicate only with those who think as we do. Or communicating in a manner that is wholly detached from reality. Too often we look only for affirmation of our own ideas rather than opening ourselves to the ideas of others.”
— Marty Baron, DIVIDED AMERICA: Constructing our own intellectual ghettos
Tagged: Communicating, Media Flows, Thought Ghettos
“The benefit of control and self-sovereignty—is its own kind of freedom.”
— Ryan Holiday, 29 Pieces Of Life Changing Advice I Collected By My 29th Birthday
Tagged: Constraints, The Joy of Restraint, The Freedom of Restraint
“It’s easy to take things at face value. The accountant says this is what you owe. Your employee says this is how things are. People say this is the only way it can be done. Accepting implicitly is a great way to find yourself in deep shit.”
— Ryan Holiday, 29 Pieces Of Life Changing Advice I Collected By My 29th Birthday
Tagged: Advice, Self-Help, Self-improvement, Question, Push Forward
“Make it so you don’t have to fake it— that’s they key. Can you imagine a doctor trying to get by with anything less? Or a quarterback, or a bull rider? More to the point, would you want them to? So why would you try otherwise?”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Don't Fake It, Do It Right
“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn’t want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Greatness, Work, Hard Work, Work Ethic
“Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Greatness, Humble Work, How To Grow
“If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Ego, Honest Communication
“If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Ego, Honest Communication