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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. An unknown sage - whose name is self. In your body he dwells. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.
…it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the worId.
Sometimes I feeI Iike I’m seeing it aII at once and it’s too much.
My heart fiIIs up Iike a baIIoon that’s about to burst.
And then I remember to reIax…
and stop trying to hoId on to it.
And then it fIows through me Iike rain,
and I can’t feeI anything but gratitude…
for every singIe moment…
of my stupid IittIe Iife…
Sometimes I feeI Iike I’m seeing it aII at once and it’s too much.
My heart fiIIs up Iike a baIIoon that’s about to burst.
And then I remember to reIax…
and stop trying to hoId on to it.
And then it fIows through me Iike rain,
and I can’t feeI anything but gratitude…
for every singIe moment…
of my stupid IittIe Iife…
Movie: American Beauty
Behold, I stand at your door and knock; open the door and I will come to you.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at anytime.
Everyone knows the same truth; what makes us different is how we choose to distort it.
I have come so that you might have life, for the way of mortals is a living death.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Truth will have no gods before it. The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Show me the stone which the builders have rejected. That stone is the cornerstone.
Whoever finds the correct interpretation of what I am saying will find eternal life.
Our ability to imagine a future, one that includes things that don’t yet exist, is unique to our species. But the future is just a concept, a fantasy. While America has a long history of innovation, tens of thousands of projects (just check the U.S. patents and trademarks registries) contain unique ideas that are sometimes irrelevant or bizarre. Perhaps because our similarities far outweigh our differences, it’s projects that delve into the areas we mutually care about that truly energize us. In that way, the quality of our collective future depends on the initiative of the few to innovate in ways that capture the imagination of the many. And so we evolve.
To be free from oppression and distraction,
and to merit life in a World to come
that has neither war nor hunger,
nor envy nor contentiousness,
but endless bounty all,
amid which the pleasures of life will be as dust
for the world will care only for the knowledge of God.
and to merit life in a World to come
that has neither war nor hunger,
nor envy nor contentiousness,
but endless bounty all,
amid which the pleasures of life will be as dust
for the world will care only for the knowledge of God.
The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is
Truth is what stands the test of experience. A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but rather thinking about yourself less.
Those who talk the most usually have the least to say.
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs. We should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
To go forward in life not knowing who you are or where you’re coming from is poetry.
It does no require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
If you can talk you can sing. If you can walk you can dance.
Proverb: old proverb from Zimbabwe
But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
Proverb: irish proverb
Negativity is the enemy to creativity. So if you want more ideas flowing, happiness in the doing, happiness in the doing, happiness in the doing. I love, capital L-O-V-E, building a thing that ultimately has to feel correct before it’s finished, and that feeling correct is like a drug. It’s like a thing that just kicks you and makes you feel so good. You almost pass out. You fall off your feet.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Success is the result of what sociologists like to call ‘accumulative advantage’
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