Monday 2 March 2015
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” Chuck Close on creativity
"Wings, the band the Beatles could have been!" - Alan Partridge
'Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit' - Henry Rollins
Teaching is a profession where you can be unbelievably mediocre and yet still be considered successful.
“Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniente. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo céntimo, es caro”.
“Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.”
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
Deus ex machina - any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
Aurea mediocritas - In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.
“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn’t the person he put over on stage.”
— Roger Taylor
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." - Chuck Klosterman
Sunday 6 July 2014
carpe diem
Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
“Set aside faraway hopes. Even as we speak, time is running away from us. So seize the day and the moment, and don’t put your faith in the future.”
"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."
— Plato
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. - Epictetus
Devout Buddhists call the lack of desire and yearning as equanimity, consumerist westerners refer to it as depression.
A sense of humor is a mans cleavage
"Comedy is a way to navigate the swamps of self." – Marc Maron
"Inspiration is a guest that only calls when invited"
"Coelum non animam mutant qui trans mare currunt" - Those who cross the sea change the sky above them, but not their souls. -Horace
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
“Set aside faraway hopes. Even as we speak, time is running away from us. So seize the day and the moment, and don’t put your faith in the future.”
"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."
— Plato
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. - Epictetus
Devout Buddhists call the lack of desire and yearning as equanimity, consumerist westerners refer to it as depression.
A sense of humor is a mans cleavage
"Comedy is a way to navigate the swamps of self." – Marc Maron
"Inspiration is a guest that only calls when invited"
"Coelum non animam mutant qui trans mare currunt" - Those who cross the sea change the sky above them, but not their souls. -Horace
Friday 13 June 2014
Great Quotations..
All deep spirit needs a mask - Friedrich Nietzsche
Woody Allen: Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.
One does not repay a teacher well by remaining a pupil - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Comedy is a way to navigate the swamps of self." – Marc Maron
'badinage' - humorous or witty conversation.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next. - Alain de Botton
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. - Lao-Tzu
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~ Taoist Proverb
J.R.R. Tolkien who said, “Not all those who wander are lost”
Religion saves the rich from being massacred by the poor - Napoleon Bonaparte:
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. -- Noel Coward
"I am absolutely terrified of smart people who aren't depressed"
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." Chuck Klosterman
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
"The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it - Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them..." - Charles Bukowski
“I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.”
“Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling!” — Freddie Mercury
“An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.”― Jen Knox
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”— Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell
Woody Allen: Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.
One does not repay a teacher well by remaining a pupil - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Comedy is a way to navigate the swamps of self." – Marc Maron
'badinage' - humorous or witty conversation.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next. - Alain de Botton
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. - Lao-Tzu
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~ Taoist Proverb
J.R.R. Tolkien who said, “Not all those who wander are lost”
Religion saves the rich from being massacred by the poor - Napoleon Bonaparte:
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. -- Noel Coward
"I am absolutely terrified of smart people who aren't depressed"
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." Chuck Klosterman
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
"The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it - Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them..." - Charles Bukowski
“I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.”
“Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling!” — Freddie Mercury
“An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.”― Jen Knox
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”— Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell
Tuesday 13 May 2014
Robert Hughes quotes: 20 of the best
Robert Hughes quotes: 20 of the best
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/07/robert-hughes-quotes-best
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.""The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. "One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: it's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
Hughes on Caravaggio: "Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."
"So much of art – not all of it thank god, but a lot of it – has just become a kind of cruddy game for the self-aggrandisement of the rich and the ignorant, it is a kind of bad but useful business."
"A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion."
"In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity." Hughes on Cezanne:
"The idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself."
"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
"What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants."
"I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between."
"There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude."
"What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?"
"An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had."
"Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal."
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
"The auction room, as anyone knows, is an excellent medium for sustaining fictional price levels, because the public imagines that auction prices are necessarily real prices."
"Can it be that the artist who paints flowers starts at a disadvantage? Almost certainly. To many people botanical subjects seem not altogether serious ... a kind of pictorial relaxation, an easy matter compared to landscape or the human figure."
"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
"What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture."
Saturday 5 April 2014
more..the world keeps turning...
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.~ Taoist Proverb
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
Deus ex machina - any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
Aurea mediocritas - In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.
“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn’t the person he put over on stage.”— Roger Taylor
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." - Chuck Klosterman
"The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold onto it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. you must continually start over and challenge yourself" -Shoju - 'Mastery' Robert Greene
"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room" -Vince Gilligan
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.~ Taoist Proverb
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
Deus ex machina - any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
Aurea mediocritas - In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.
“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn’t the person he put over on stage.”— Roger Taylor
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." - Chuck Klosterman
"The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold onto it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. you must continually start over and challenge yourself" -Shoju - 'Mastery' Robert Greene
"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room" -Vince Gilligan
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
Saturday 4 January 2014
more...
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." Chuck Klosterman
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
"The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it!- Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them..."Charles Bukowski
“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn’t the person he put over on stage.” - Roger Taylor
“He said the next generation will be the ones to beat this. And the sad thing is, if it had been twelve months later he might have been okay, when combination drug therapy came in. But he was getting frail and he decided to come off all the medication apart from painkillers. Freddie loved life. He lived it to the full. And towards the end, when he realized it was no longer fun, he decided to come off medication. He was suffering and sadly there was no way out.”- Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s final weeks
“I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.” - Freddie Mercury
deus ex machina - any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent, instead of against the opponent's argument.
"Half a century later, I started Brain Pickings in large part out of frustration and disappointment with my trampling experience of our culturally fetishized “Ivy League education.” I found myself intellectually and creatively unstimulated by the industrialized model of the large lecture hall, the PowerPoint presentations, the standardized tests assessing my rote memorization of facts rather than my ability to transmute that factual knowledge into a pattern-recognition mechanism that connects different disciplines to cultivate wisdom about how the world works and a moral lens on how it should work.- Maria Popova
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” - Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell
"Inspiration is a guest that only calls when invited"
Facebook n. Almanack wherein People do catalogue their Achievements for publick Consumption; thus a strutting Compendium of Peacockery
The Airbrush Obergruppenführer
'I have nigh on one Hundred PROBLEMS, yet my WENCH is not one'
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”- Anais Nin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” - Anais Nin
Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded: Buddha
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe."-John Muir
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. --Bo Bennett
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” - Clive James
“If one person tells you you're a horse, they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle”
Aurea mediocritas - In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.
"Wings, the band the Beatles could have been!" - Alan Partridge
'Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit' - Henry Rollins
Teaching is a profession where you can be unbelievably mediocre and yet still be considered successful.
“Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniente. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo céntimo, es caro”.
“Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.”
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym.” Woody Allen
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - 1935 – 2004
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
Sturgeon's Law - "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” Chuck Close on creativity
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare
"The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it!- Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them..."Charles Bukowski
“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn’t the person he put over on stage.” - Roger Taylor
“He said the next generation will be the ones to beat this. And the sad thing is, if it had been twelve months later he might have been okay, when combination drug therapy came in. But he was getting frail and he decided to come off all the medication apart from painkillers. Freddie loved life. He lived it to the full. And towards the end, when he realized it was no longer fun, he decided to come off medication. He was suffering and sadly there was no way out.”- Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s final weeks
“I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.” - Freddie Mercury
deus ex machina - any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent, instead of against the opponent's argument.
"Half a century later, I started Brain Pickings in large part out of frustration and disappointment with my trampling experience of our culturally fetishized “Ivy League education.” I found myself intellectually and creatively unstimulated by the industrialized model of the large lecture hall, the PowerPoint presentations, the standardized tests assessing my rote memorization of facts rather than my ability to transmute that factual knowledge into a pattern-recognition mechanism that connects different disciplines to cultivate wisdom about how the world works and a moral lens on how it should work.- Maria Popova
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” - Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell
"Inspiration is a guest that only calls when invited"
Facebook n. Almanack wherein People do catalogue their Achievements for publick Consumption; thus a strutting Compendium of Peacockery
The Airbrush Obergruppenführer
'I have nigh on one Hundred PROBLEMS, yet my WENCH is not one'
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”- Anais Nin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” - Anais Nin
Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded: Buddha
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe."-John Muir
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. --Bo Bennett
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” - Clive James
“If one person tells you you're a horse, they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle”
Aurea mediocritas - In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.
"Wings, the band the Beatles could have been!" - Alan Partridge
'Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit' - Henry Rollins
Teaching is a profession where you can be unbelievably mediocre and yet still be considered successful.
“Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniente. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo céntimo, es caro”.
“Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.”
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym.” Woody Allen
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - 1935 – 2004
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
Sturgeon's Law - "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” Chuck Close on creativity
Tuesday 9 April 2013
More...
"Beware
the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who
invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion;
prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought
arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as they were mammals. Never be a
spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation
for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any
more than you would expect others to live for your."- Christopher
Hitchens
sesquipedalian - 'a lover of obscure words'
"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter." Bertrand Russell
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When bankers get together for dinner they talk about art. When artists get together for dinner they talk about money.” Oscar Wilde
"It is more acceptable to fail in conventional ways than in unconventional ways. And its corollary: The reward for succeeding in unconventional ways is less than the risk of failing in unconventional ways. In short, you can screw up with impunity so long as you screw up like everybody else." -Puttnam's Law
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.- Napolean Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” Baudelaire
"ars longa, vita brevis". Art is long, life is short
"When someone tries to bring you down...it's because they are already beneath you."
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”- Arthur Schopenhauer
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”- Cicero
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious." Oscar Wilde
"In your opinion, what is the best way to handle disappointment?” Expect it. Laugh about it. Try harder next time. - Ricky Gervais
Honestly, take a look around: the people who succeed are the ones too stupid to know how bad they are and keep working. - Austin Kleon
"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."-Alan Moore
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
“I am orderly and disciplined with my daily life, so that I may be savage and original with my art.” Flaubert
"Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age" -Warren Buffet
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.-Charles Bukowski
"All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?" - Banksy
creativity begets creativity
"Those who can - do, those who can't - TROLL"
"Education is not preparation for life: Education is life itself." - John Dewey
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".-- Thomas Edison ,"So I jabbed Tesla with my newly invented cattle prod and said, 'Invent me somethin' motherfu*ker!'"
sesquipedalian - 'a lover of obscure words'
"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter." Bertrand Russell
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When bankers get together for dinner they talk about art. When artists get together for dinner they talk about money.” Oscar Wilde
"It is more acceptable to fail in conventional ways than in unconventional ways. And its corollary: The reward for succeeding in unconventional ways is less than the risk of failing in unconventional ways. In short, you can screw up with impunity so long as you screw up like everybody else." -Puttnam's Law
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.- Napolean Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” Baudelaire
"ars longa, vita brevis". Art is long, life is short
"When someone tries to bring you down...it's because they are already beneath you."
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”- Arthur Schopenhauer
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”- Cicero
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious." Oscar Wilde
"In your opinion, what is the best way to handle disappointment?” Expect it. Laugh about it. Try harder next time. - Ricky Gervais
Honestly, take a look around: the people who succeed are the ones too stupid to know how bad they are and keep working. - Austin Kleon
"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."-Alan Moore
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
“I am orderly and disciplined with my daily life, so that I may be savage and original with my art.” Flaubert
"Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age" -Warren Buffet
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.-Charles Bukowski
"All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?" - Banksy
creativity begets creativity
"Those who can - do, those who can't - TROLL"
"Education is not preparation for life: Education is life itself." - John Dewey
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".-- Thomas Edison ,"So I jabbed Tesla with my newly invented cattle prod and said, 'Invent me somethin' motherfu*ker!'"
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