#things

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing. ↗

— Meg Jay

#psychology #twentysomethings #nature

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#sympathy #truth #nature

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#patina #stories #things #art

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon. ↗

— Matt Smith

#big-flashy-things #doctor-who #humour #matt-smith #christmas

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#little-things #thrill #boredom

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. ↗

— Woody Allen

#hundred #live #make #things #up

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. ↗

— Alice Walker

#always #care #come #company #find

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#america #beautiful #bringing #constitution #country

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#going #i #i love #like #love

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#crescendo #fallen-angel #good-things #life #patch