Rumi Quotes
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Quotes to Explore
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
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I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
