YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Albert Camus

Let's commence this day with one from the wise master and literary guru, Albert Camus:

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Alfred Whitney Griswold

What better way to kick off your week of boundless productivity than with a quote from famed historian and one-time Yale president, Alfred Whitney Griswold?

Take this insight with you on the daily:

Books won't stay banned.  They won't burn. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Oscar Wilde

Quoting legendary poet Oscar Wilde is like shooting philosophical fish in a philosophical barrel, but that doesn't make his words any less relevant.

So start your day off with this--and then use it:

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Steve Jobs

By this time, you've seen the news saturated with words about one thing: Steve Jobs' passing.

Instead, let's redirect and focus on words left to us from the undisputed visionary himself.

Today, we give you two of his essential insights. Take note:

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Apple founders; Jobs & Steve Wozniak

That’s been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: John Cage

As time goes on, don't be surprised if you see us share a few more quotes from one of the godfathers of the avant-garde, John Cage. The 20th century composer/philospher/poet has innumerable published insights, but for today's purposes, let's start with words we live closest by:

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas.  I'm frightened by the old ones.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Jack London

If you went to elementary school (and we very much hope you did), then chances are you grew up with the books of Jack London; Call of The Wild and White Fang being the household ones you're most likely to know.

Either way, revisit your past and kick off your day with this dead-on quote by Mr. London himself:

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Sylvia Plath

Sure, we all know how it ended with venerable writer/poet, Slyvia Plath--though in her thriving period, she had some mighty important things to say. 

Case in point, this:

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Nolan Bushnell

Easily the most important words you'll hear all day, spoken by legendary engineer and entrepreneur, Nolan Bushnell. He founded a little company named Atari.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea.  It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: George Bernard Shaw

This morning's slice of knowledge comes courtesy of none other than famed playwright and master dramatist, George Bernard Shaw.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

YOUR DAILY INSIGHT // As Told By: Dave Eggers

For today's daily insight, we turn to ubiquitous author and vehement champion of all things creative, Dave Eggers.  Listen up, folks:

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a fuckload of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying YES.