June 2013
18 posts
“So many dreams will come true this summer”
—David Uzochukwu
60 Quotes that Will Change the Way You Think →
marcandangel.com
-Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t know.
-Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc…
May 2013
57 posts
Why you should travel young →
convergemagazine.com
Youth is that time of your life when you are totally empowered to do whatever you want to do. Forget about the “yeah but…” and just do it, travel young, it will change you in ways that nothing else can or will.
Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled →
web.mit.edu
A speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class. SO WORTH READING.
“It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.”
“A REAL job is a job you hate… It was a rude shock to see just how empty and robotic life can be when you don’t care about what you’re doing, and the only reason you’re there is to pay the bills.”
“We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.”
“Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.”
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.”
—Brian Eno
