“It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.” IfsThinkingDoeImportantCountryWholeCoursesGrowsGrowingShareLandFairsNotionSillySoilWhy NotLionsFarmersTruckCountyBarnsTractorsCounty Fair Author:Joel Salatin
“The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.” PeopleIfsFeelsImportantMotivationalCreativeEmotionalNotionHobbiesWaiver Author:Seth Godin
“Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.” ImportantStatesFeelingsJoyGivenLove IsEmotionConditionsAnd LoveNotionAffectionDestroyedDistinctionDependentParallelsLike LoveJoy And HappinessHappiness And LoveLove And Affection Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” ThinkingWayWantKindImportantLife IsCausesSidesMinutesMarkImportant ThingsEmbraceNotionPopsLife ChangingShakesVersusMoldMessed UpPoke Author:Steve Jobs
“The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.” IfsKnowsMenGivingMeanLittlesImportantHomeWomenAnimalStrangeBirthCreaturesFemaleProfoundMalesNotionSpreadCavesInnovativeGiving BirthHunted Book:Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970 Source: Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970
“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.” IfsWayDoeImportantFeelingsBodyDesireForceSocialInfluenceActivityNotionMediumsPerceiveMeaninglessTranscendenceFormationSubjectivity Author:Susan McClary