"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
- Robert Heinlein
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
- Robert Heinlein
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
- Oscar Wilde
"What you are will show in what you do."
- Thomas A. Edison
"Our principal impediments at present are neither lack of energy or material resources nor of essential physical or biological knowledge. Our principal constraints are cultural"
- Marion King Hubbert
"The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought."
- Pythagoras
"In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again."
- Don Draper, “The Wheel” (via stxxz)
(via stxxz)
Plato said “One man cannot practice many arts with success”. My first thought was Leonardo da Vinci, Bernini and Michelangelo.
Thought:
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
- Oscar Wilde
"‘Architectural values are human values or they are not valuable’"
- (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1932)
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
- (Julius Caesar)
Eddie Vedder - Rise
Original of “Chit tae thu ngal layy” soundtrack