Maria Popova Quotes

• 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.

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  Order, Ideas, Discipline

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

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  Important, World, Packaging

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• Crea espacios de quietud en tu vida. Medita. Pasea. Pasea en bicicleta sin rumbo fijo. Soñar despierto tiene una finalidad creativa, incluso el aburrimiento. Las mejores ideas surgen cuando dejamos de intentar que la musa se manifieste y dejamos que los fragmentos de la experiencia floten en nuestra mente inconsciente para que encajen en nuevas combinaciones. Sin esta etapa esencial de procesamiento inconsciente, todo el flujo del proceso creativo se rompe.

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  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

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  Motivational, Opportunity, Giving

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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

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  Who We Are, Life Is, Process

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

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  Art, Intricate, Productivity

  Twitter post from Nov 3, 2013

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• Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

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  Curious, Consistently

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• 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.

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  Reality, Thinking, Needs

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• Cuando la gente te diga quiénes son, créeles, decía Maya Angelou. Pero igual de importante es que no les creas cuando te digan quién eres. Tú eres el único guardián de tu propia integridad, y las suposiciones de quienes no entienden quién eres y lo que representas revelan mucho sobre ellos y absolutamente nada sobre ti.

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  Integridad, Creer, Gente

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• Somos un collage de nuestros intereses, nuestras influencias, nuestras inspiraciones, todas las impresiones fragmentarias que hemos recogido estando vivos y despiertos al mundo. Lo que "somos" no es más que un catálogo de todo ello.

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  Inspiration, Alive, World

  "Literature is the original Internet". Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Este es el poder del arte: El poder de trascender nuestro propio interés, nuestro zoom solipsista sobre la vida, y relacionarnos con el mundo y con los demás con más integridad, más curiosidad, más sinceridad.

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  Art, Integrity, Self

  "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.

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• To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

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  Opportunity, Understood, Interaction

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.

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  Art, Joy, Culture

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• Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

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  Self, Creating, Anxiety

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

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  Acceptance, Tolerance, Unconditional

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• Enriqueces a la gente con recursos creativos y, con el tiempo, estos ladrillos de Lego que acaban en sus cabezas acaban construyendo este enorme e increíble castillo.

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  People, Creative, Castles

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.

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  Real, Writing, Compassion

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

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  Views, Pieces, Patterns

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• Tengo días malos. A veces tengo muchos días malos. En general, creo que la mayoría de la gente se pone de mal humor porque es capaz de rumiar cualquier problema que tenga entre manos, y eso lo empeora. Pero cuando interceptas el proceso de rumiación con algo que requiere toda tu atención -que es estimulante y absorbente, que exige tu concentración intelectual- no consigues rumiar. En cierto modo, es una ayuda para la salud mental poder hacer tanto eso. Mi rutina, lo que hago, me hace sentir como en casa. Es mi alimento reconfortante.

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  Fall, Home, Bad Day

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• he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

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  Joy, Wonder, Capacity

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading," by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.

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  Creativity, Reality, Locks

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• Crea espacios de quietud en tu vida.

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  Entrepreneur, Pockets, Stillness

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

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  Journey, Love Is, Leaving

  "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Giving, Trying, Funny Videos

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Cuando descubrí PopTech y otro tipo de portales intelectuales en línea para curiosos. Rápidamente, saqué tanto más provecho de ellos que de la llamada educación de la "Ivy League" que supe que dependía de mí mantenerme estimulado y seguir aprendiendo, más que nada. Y, como me pagaba la universidad, trabajaba en Penn, de dos a cuatro empleos a la vez para pagarme los estudios.

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  Trabajo, escuela, universidad

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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