Attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
--Simone Weil

Cooperation

"Survival of the fittest"--a phrase that Darwin himself only used twice in On the Origin of Species, compared to hundreds of references to altruism, love and cooperation.
--Russell Brand

Listening

Each act of listening to music may be thought of as both recapitulating the past and predicting the future.
--Robert J. Zatorre and Valorie N. Salimpoor

Yes

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
--e. e. cummings

Technology

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
--Jonathan Safran Foer

Constantly

You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world.
--Joss Whedon

Lying

Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

Creatures

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
--Jonathan Safran Foer

Direction

There's no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
--Oprah Winfrey

Data Mining

A founding principle of our jurisprudence is that you're innocent until proved guilty; data mining is based on the opposite principle.
--Reed Hundt (former chairman of the FCC)

Two Things

What I believe is that all people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: curious and kind.
--Roger Ebert

Honesty

Unalloyed honesty is the iridium of the information economy--vanishingly rare, and therefore precious.
--Tim Kreider

Yourself

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
--e. e. cummings

Memory

When you have a memory of something, you are actually having a memory of your last memory of it.
--Sarah Polley

Fart Around

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
--Kurt Vonnegut