People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
“Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life — you’ll still need to pick it up and carry… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
“Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image