January 2012
“Ho pensato, oggi, ero lì, al sole,
una cosa che secondo me è importante:
una...”
– (Igor’ Guberman, Primo diario di Gerusalemme. Secondo diario di Gerusalemme, Mosca, EKSMO 2004, p. 30) Al sole - Paolo Nori
(via déjà vu)
“She said, I love you.
He said, Nothing.
(As if there were just one of each...”
– “The Primer,” Christina Davis (via clavicola)
“And how can you be successful if you’re not happy?”
– 10 Questions That Create Success | Inc.com
good point.
“The moral of the Van Gogh story? Imagine, dream, persevere, work harder than you...”
– Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #8: Van Gogh - The Rumpus.net (via leopoldgursky)
“[…] one extremely good way to become wedded to a theory you’ve just...”
– from Being wrong - Adventures in the margin of error, by Kathryn Schulz.
"L’unico modo per andare avanti è andare avanti....
paginadiunacomuneragazza:
— Stephen King.
“Suddenly to remember: the ancient Assyrians carved words into every surface,...”
–
Dan Beachy-Quick, “A January Notebook” (Evening Will Come, April 2011)
“Quando un adulto entra nel mondo delle fiabe non riesce più ad uscirne.”
– Bocca dorata, Corte sconta detta arcana (via zalesthebard)
today's monograph: Inception [Christopher Nolan,...
AKA stuff the swEEde and me have been watching/re-watching over the last two days.
* Inception (Nolan, 2010);
* David Kyle Johnson, ‘Inception and Philosophy’. Or, why the movie should have won Best Picture;
* Filming the rotating corridor and zero-gravity sequence (quite cool, actually);
’ And, of course: Edith Piaf, Non, je ne regrette rien.
“I always assume that anything that could be for sale probably is.”
– Stephen Colbert
(http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/stephen-colbert.xml)
“[…] technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself.”
– Internet Access Is Not a Human Right - NYTimes.com
byronic :: mad bad and dangerous to know:... →
ecantwell:
On average, odd years have been the best for me. I’m at a point where everyone I meet looks like a version of someone I already know. Without fail, fall makes me nostalgic for things I’ve never experienced. The sky is molting. I don’t know if this is global warming or if the atmosphere is reconfiguring itself to accommodate all the new bright suffering. I am struck by an overwhelming...
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always...”
– Jaggi Vasudev (via eternalconsciousness)
New Year's Resolutions
Me: What if I started getting up at 6 am every morning this year?
Chris: What? No. Why?
Me: To be more productive?
Chris: No.
Me: Okay. Maybe I'll go on a juice cleanse.
Chris: You don't need to go on a juice cleanse.
Me: Just to get the toxins out of my body. But this one online costs $325.
Chris: That's definitely a no.
Me: What if I had a different resolution for every month? Like, in January I will read for an hour every day, and in February I will eat raw food, and in March I'll do yoga every morning.
Chris: ...
Me: Well, I want SOME resolution.
Chris: The best thing for you this year would be to stop feeling compelled to change your life. Your life is wonderful. You're healthy. You're productive. Why don't we just try to enjoy the ride this year?
December 2011
“Ho dimenticato come ci si protegge e ho dimenticato perché.”
– violentafiducia. (via solofumo)
“It’s amazing how you can get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it...”
– Sarah Dessen (via absea)
Indeed.
filosoffessa:
qualcuno parte e qualcuno resta e aspetta. in mezzo il tempo come mare, quello che ci tocca sempre nuotare e talvolta si beve. quello che non ha un orizzonte finito e lascia intatto ogni desiderio. e allora è questo che ti auguro, di andare, se vai, e di tornare a colori. di restare, se resti, e di saper aspettare perché tutto, prima o poi, arriva.
e di desiderare, sempre....
“Danish, a tongue that the Danes themselves describe as less a language than a...”
– Donald Barthelme, The King
(I used to speak Danish, then I changed otolaryngologist)
true story. that’s why I moved on to swedish (kind of).
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
– Galileo Galilei (via livejamie)
“The ruins of December are full of people.”
– Richard Meier, from “Untitled” (via proustitute)
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nevver)
“Even a map cannot show you
the way back to a place
that no longer exists.”
– Sandra M. Castillo, from “Christmas, 1970” (via risky wiver)
Why I Hire People Who Fail - Jeff Stibel - Harvard... →
We don’t just encourage risk taking at our offices: we demand failure. If you’re not failing every now and then, you’re probably not advancing. Mistakes are the predecessors to both innovation and success, so it is important to celebrate mistakes as a central component of any culture. This kind of culture can only be created by example — it won’t work if it’s forced...
November 2011
“I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or...”
– Mark Twain Travel Quotes (Today is Twain’s 176th Birthday Anniversary)