0 vs. nothing is one of those abstract distinctions that’s almost impossible to talk about directly; you more have to do it with examples. Imagine there’s a certain math class, and in this class there’s a fiendishly difficult 100-point midterm, and imagine that neither you nor I get even one point out of 100 on [...] Read more – ‘Difference between 0 and ‘nothing’’.
GQ: Sum up your life in a phrase. Hackman: “He tried.” I think that’d be fairly accurate. → Is Gene Hackman Retired From Acting? GQ Interview June 2011: Movies + TV: GQ. Read more – ‘→ Is Gene Hackman Retired From Acting?’.
The wheel’s hub holds thirty spokes Utility depends on the hole through the hub. The potter’s clay forms a vessel It is the space within that serves. A house is built with solid walls The nothingness of window and door alone renders it usable. That which exists may be transformed What is non existent has [...] Read more – ‘“What is non existent has boundless uses”’.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did they produce? The cuckoo-clock. – Orson Welles, “The Third Man“ Read more – ‘→ Quote: War vs Peace’.
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top [...] Read more – ‘Quote – Bill Watterson on work & life’.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...] Read more – ‘Specialization is for insects’.
Some quotes I liked from the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this [...] Read more – ‘Quotes from Curious Case of Benjamin Button’.
