Category: Quotable

Living a good life …

(via overflowing)

Be Youself
(via lifeisprettywoman & sincerelyandy)

I am only one! (keepsakeme icanread & brad ruggles)

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look a the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
– Christine D. Larson

ego-technique:

How to Work Better by Fischli/Weiss (1991)

“Taped to the wall of my studio is an A4 photocopy of a short ten-point manifesto by Fischli/Weiss entitled “How to work better”. I don’t know who put it there, but it has been in place for at least three years. It’s a tongue-in-cheek work using a motivational statement, which is a piece of found text they subsequently enlarged and had painted on the exterior of a building as part of a public commission. I sometimes show it to students at the beginning of slide lectures, and always point it out to assistants who come to the studio. I like it quite simply because it acknowledges their awareness of the idea of practice rather than production”.

(Ryan Gander, from Dexter Sinister Library)

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