Every court had its astrologer-astronomer…. #astrology #history #cosmos

Is poisoning a female crime? Not particularly. The great majority of poisoners are going to be males, just as other types of murderers are. But because of the nonconfrontational aspect of it, if a woman is going to attempt murder, poison is one of the means that would likely be near the top of her list. #truecrime #mindhunter #shesleuths

Success depends 90 percent on your mind-set. I know that no matter how much knowledge you may gather, if you don‘t change your way of thinking, you‘ll rebound.

Art is competitive with yourself, with the past, with the future. It is a special war zone where first you make the rules, and then you test the consequences.

No matter how limited your resources, they‘re enough to get you started.

It‘s tempting to try to rein in the unruliness of the creative process, especially at the start. Planning lets you impose order on the chaotic process of making something new, but when it‘s taken too far you get locked into a status quo, and creative thinking is about breaking free from the status quo, even from one you made yourself. That‘s why it‘s vital to know the difference between good planning and too much planning.

The more you are in the room working, experimenting, banging away at your objective, the more luck has a chance of biting you on the nose.

Scratching can look like borrowing or appropriating, but it‘s an essential part of creativity. It‘s primal, and very private. It‘s a way of saying to the gods, “Oh, don‘t mind me, I‘ll just wander around in these back hallways…” and then grabbing that piece of fire and running like hell.

Inspiration is the fuel behind any great work of art, across every discipline.

To master your mind is to master your life.

Procrastination has become its own solution—a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee toward success.

I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it‘s just children and old people who laugh.

When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it.

Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.

I don't care if your product cost nothing to make and it's 100 times superior to its closest competitor; you will still have to apply 10 times more effort just to push through all the noise in order to get people to even know about it.

Regardless of the goal you are striving to accomplish, you will be required to think differently, embrace a die-hard level of commitment, and take massive amounts of action at 10 times the levels you think necessary—followed by more actions. #entrepreneur #goals #success

Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. #DystopianNovel #Fiction #TheHandmaidsTale

Death-beds are great revealers of secrets.