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“Though much of this research is new, the essential insight isn’t. Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers understood the need to balance the positive with the negative, optimism with pessimism, a striving for success and security with an openness to failure and uncertainty. The Stoics recommende…”

— Oliver Burkeman, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking

“Take affirmations, those cheery slogans intended to lift the user’s mood by repeating them: ‘I am a lovable person!’ ‘My life is filled with joy!’ Psychologists at the University of Waterloo concluded that such statements make people with low self-esteem feel worse — not least because telling yourse…”

— Oliver Burkeman, nytimes.com

“The relentless cheer of positive thinking begins to seem less like an expression of joy and more like a stressful effort to stamp out any trace of negativity. A positive thinker can never relax, lest an awareness of sadness or failure creep in. And telling yourself that everything must work out is p…”

— Oliver Burkeman, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking

“Before I had Dribbble or a WhatTheFont extension for Chrome, I would screenshot apps I used and ‘trace’ over them in Fireworks until what I was mocking up looked indiscernible from the screenshot. Now I do the same thing in Sketch.”

— Jon Moore, Jon Moore, Jon Moore, Getting better at design is easy…just copy people!

“Let’s play titanic I’ll play iceberg and you’ll go down.”

— Pick Up Lines, Dirty Pick Up Lines

“You’ll start to see how some of the most popular apps are so simply designed. You might even find some inconsistencies here and there (but hey, these are screenshots so we’ll blame that on dev”

— Jon Moore, Getting better at design is easy…just copy people!

“Are you tired? Because you have been running across my mind all night.”

— Courtney Pocock, Pick Up Lines for Girls to Use on Guys

“Is that a keg in your pants? Because I want to tap that.”

— Courtney Pocock, Pick Up Lines for Girls to Use on Guys

“You need to breakup with your habit of pushing pixel perfect designs. You should be able to ship something quick and dirty just because sometimes not doing so will impact your business. Remember that nothing is set in stone and you can always come back to fix it later.”

— Kenneth, What every young designer should know

“deep caption”

— chrissy teigen, instagram.com

“Thankfulness is the key to happiness”

— Justin Bieber, instagram.com

“Never would have made it without you”

— Justin Bieber, instagram.com

“Something is really wrong with me! And I love that it is.”

— Instagram video by LeBron James, instagram.com

“I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind. I have found the warm caves in the woods,…”

— Anne Sexton, goodreads.com

“Saturday! Icing my face with a frozen burrito, swollen from eating popcorn while eating a cookie”

— @amyschumer, instagram.com

“Aside from being sexy, what do you do for a living?”

— Rania Naim, 50 Hilarious Cheesy Pick-Up Lines That Will Definitely Make Your Crush Smile

“I’m lost. Can you give me directions to your heart?”

— Rania Naim, 50 Hilarious Cheesy Pick-Up Lines That Will Definitely Make Your Crush Smile

“When I realize I'm out of sleeping pills on a 5 hour flight.”

— Chelsea Handler, instagram.com

“For some reason, I was feeling a little off today. But when you came along, you definitely turned me on.”

— Rania Naim, 50 Hilarious Cheesy Pick-Up Lines That Will Definitely Make Your Crush Smile

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

— Edward Abbey, goodreads.com