Consume Less. Create More.
consumelesscreatemore.com
consumelesscreatemore.com
-- Edward de Bono
When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.
-- Linda Naiman
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
-- Eric Hoffer
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
--Carl Sagan
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
-- Teilhard de Chardin
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-- Vernon Howard
Edit for more:
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
-- Rita Mae Brow
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
-- Trevor Dunn
But this is just the start of something much bigger.
-- Cory Doctorow
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edwin Land
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-- Edward Abbey
Actually, they are all at http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more/blob/mast...
Instant screensaver, for when you don't have to bother with locking the desktop.
I don't wish to slag on what is obviously a labour of love, but other than the use-case outlined above, is there a point? Otherwise the site is plainly consuming more than it creates.
It is true that it relys on quotes, but I didn't see that as consuming so much as combining, like using lego bricks to build something.
Thanks for looking!
In between quotes (or every few quotes) a call to action and link to a charity could come up.
Does anyone else like that or have suggestions?
Also, in this context "helping" does not involving buying them anything.
1) Prev, pause, and next buttons for quote motion
2) Color swatches for the quotation marks and the words
Both of these would be hidden until mouse movement, a la the new google homepage