Why are you going fishing?
“Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are after” – Henry David Thoreau
Do you want to be something more?
“Even a common, ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is. Wants to be better than what it is. And that is what we must be.” from “Indecent proposal” (1993)
David: Great architecture is only going to come from your passion. And even that won’t assure you a job. Louie Kahn, died in a men’s room in Penn Station for days no one claimed the body. (slide shows the Salk Institute) Look at that, is that beautiful? The money men did not weep, because the great ones are impossible to deal with, they’re a pain in the ass because they know that if they do their jobs properly, if they just once get it right they can actually lift the human spirit, take it to a higher place. (holds up a brick) What is this?
Student #1: A brick!
David: Good. What else?
Student #2: A weapon.
David: Louie Kahn said that even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is. Wants to be better than what it is. And that is what we must be. See ya on Friday.
The whole trouble with the world
“The whole trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell, “The Triumph of Stupidity,” 1933
To whom belongs certitude?
“Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.” – Robert Anton Wilson
The two more harmful words
There are no two words in the English language more harmful than “good job”.
J.K. Simmons as prof Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014)
All Boundaries are Conventions
All Boundaries are Conventions Scene, from Cloud Atlas (2012)
“I climb the steps of the Scot monument every morning and all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now, that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.”
Do you have chains?
“Those who don’t move don’t notice their chains.” Rosa Luxemburg
What’s the hardest thing to explain?
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” – Ayn Rand
Tony Bobbins’ “Let-Go Clinic”… :-))))))
I’m a big fan of Tony, but this is too funny….:-)))))))
