RachelKfisher

This is not a war on Islam. […] Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, he was a mass murderer of Muslims.”
-Obama

All the kidding aside, obviously we know about your credentials and breadth of experience, um… for example, recently at an episode of the Celebrity Apprentice, at the steak house, the men’s cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. There was a lot of blame to go around but you Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership, so ultimately you didn’t blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf; you fired Gary Busy.

And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.

—Obama (via kateoplis)

You have not failed until you quit trying.

—Gordon B. Hinckley (via kari-shma)

(Source: kari-shma, via quote-book)

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

—Ira Glass

(via nefffy)