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… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Universal WiFi. Without a doubt. I am done with being on the train, not having internet. Or having spotty coverage. It's a fundamental need… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world. — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional. — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year, they made… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
One of my jobs was at a start-up ad agency. They were trying to do things differently, work with socially conscious clients, and to… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle. — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
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