The day has arrived – Einstein said and was right…
“I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” – Albert Einstein
Having a Coffee…
Well tempered Clavier – Richter
When a genius meets another genius… well, you have this kind of breathtaking performances.
Perfect control of the sound, perfect fraseggio, perfect poliphony, what else?
Perfection doesn’t need explainations. Maybe, just gratitude.
“Freedom is not just a dream.”
“Freedom is not just a dream. It’s there on the other side of those fences we build all by ourselves.”
Dr. Ethan Powell, played by Anthony Hopkins in Instinct (1999)
Only faith…
“When you’ve come to the edge of all the light that you know faith is the only one of two things that will happen for you. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.”
Elizabeth Cooler Ross – “On Death and Dying”
Fear is a choice
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me. danger is very real but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story”
Cypher Raige (played by Will Smith) to his son, in “After earth”
Let people surprise you…
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Vocation
“Among his various possible beings each man always finds one which is his genuine and authentic being. The voice which calls him to that authentic being is what we call “vocation.” But the majority of men devote themselves to silencing that voice of the vocation and refusing to hear it. They manage to make a noise within themselves…to distract their own attention in order not to hear it; and they defraud themselves by substituting for their genuine selves a false course of life.” — JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
Fortune is in your hands
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others:We are merely born with the capability to do it.
The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.” — Goethe
The Power of Negative Thinking
Really interesting…
Both ancient philosophy and modern psychology suggest that darker thoughts can make us happier, writes Oliver Burkeman.
