"Despite her exhaustion, Remedios felt the energy of novelty. The trees were different here, the streets, the smells; it enlivened her. She'd been forced into change for so long now that it felt comforting, even as she landed in a new country with nothing but a suitcase."
–– Claire McMillan, American author
Source: Claire McMillan. Alchemy of a Blackbird. Toronto: Atria Books (Simon and Schuster), 2023; p. 132.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 35.
"It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority."
–– Sir John Templeton (1912-2008), American-born British investor, banker and philanthropist
Source: Peter Attia. Outlive. New York: Harmony, 2023; p. 235.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook L 2024, p. 40.
"It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better."
–– Jony Ive (b. 1967), British-American designer
"I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life."
–– Jane Goodall (b. 1934), English primatologist and anthropologist
Source: Nitch, Instagram, March 6, 2024.
"Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That's your source of power."
–– Robert Greene (b. 1959), American writer
Source: Daily Philosopher, Instagram, August 17, 2023.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 91.
"Repetition is not repetition. The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end."
–– Pina Bausch (1940-2009), German dancer and choreographer
via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 41.
"A book has to leave you a little bit different than how you were when you started reading it."
–– Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963), American writer
Source: The Globe and Mail. "Books." The Book Report, Saturday August 27, 2016, p. R14.
via: Sketchbook 29, 2016, p. 86.
"To do things differently, we must see things differently."
–– John Thackara (b. 1951), British writer, adviser, public speaker, & curator of Doors of Perception conference (re: design)
Source: Elle Decoration UK, March 2016, p. 19.
via: Sketchbook 28, 2016, p. 91.
"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before."
–– C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Irish-born British writer and lay theologian
via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 61
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
–– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German poet and philosopher
via Book of Commonplace 2000-present, p. 99
