My Notes
Small thoughts, quotes, quick jokes
Make two people proud: Your 8-year-old self and your 80-year-old self
- David Perell
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
David Gilmore is the benchmark of less being more. He has proved that shredding and fast playing is not the benchmark of mastery level. Gilmore never wastes a note; he builds his solos like a painter; every note, every bend, every tonal inflection has merit.David's solos paint a picture in the minds of his listeners. Something that really is a testament of his talent as a guitar player
Eddie Van Halen
One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless. … I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human beings are inclined to behave in ways that would make animals blush.
The ironic, the tragic thing is that we often behave in ignoble fashion from what we consider the highest motives. The animal makes no excuse for killing his prey; the human animal, on the other hand, can invoke God’s blessing when massacring his fellow men. He forgets that God is not on his side but at his side
Henry Miller
Accept the initial agitation
Andrew Huberman on how the brain is wired against focus
The human mind, once stretched to a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Art is not luxury, its sustenance.
Ethan Hawke - TED Talk on creativity
Things are no longer priced at what people can afford to pay, but what people can afford to borrow.
When people tell you something is wrong, they're usually right.
When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
Bill Hader on receiving feedback
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
- Jean Luc Picard
We stand on the shoulders of those who did not flee when adversity came knocking
Unknown - (help me find the source)
A label is an approximation that you can tolerate
All your stuff used to be money.
All your money used to be time.
I want to fall in love anyway, to let it crack me open.
Maurice Sendak
Found in John Green's
History may not repeat but it does rhyme
Power at a distance is a power indifferent to consequences.
The universe is change, life is opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
Remember that if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life
Jerzy Gregorek - World Weightlifting Champion
Bear your neighbor's burden within reason
People don't buy what you do.
They buy why you do it.