Perhaps the most true and timeless version of Paris, for everyone, might be a version of this one — the Paris filtered through remembered dreams.
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories — B.J. Novak 9:21pm on August 7, 2016Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to…
Austin Kleon — “Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth… 8:50pm on August 1, 2016You can’t feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life anymore than you can stay passionately in love forever, or grieve forever for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busy work of living.
Austin Kleon — Near-death experiences for cowards like me 8:48pm on August 1, 2016Okay, nurture the positive human parts of yourself and hope they get into your work, eventually.
Austin Kleon — Tobias Wolff: “An artist was someone who worked,… 8:42pm on August 1, 2016Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it.
Austin Kleon — Success is like a mountain that keeps growing… 8:39pm on August 1, 2016You know when you’re saying goodbye to somebody at the airport that you love and you get all soft? You’re like, “Oh my god, I hardly knew ya.” You know, that kind of feeling? What if that’s the truth? That that times ten is the mode that we should exist in all the time? Then another day you’re just yourself. There’s a big gap between those two people.
So, my regret would be how much time did I spend in that regular, old, stupid habitual mindset of taking everything for granted, as opposed to this exalted state of being super-tenderized to the people you care about.
I’m guessing that, you know, if there’s a heaven, it’s that at the airport times ten or twenty or a thousand.
Austin Kleon — “That airport state of mind.” 7:19pm on August 1, 2016In the face of what looks like unbroken failure, she is so persistent. Most of her experiments, her efforts to predict and control her environment, don’t work. But she goes right on, not the least daunted. Perhaps this is because there are no penalties attached to failure, except nature’s—usually if you try to step on a ball, you fall down. A baby does not react to failure as an adult does, or even a five-year-old, because she has not yet been made to feel that failure is shame, disgrace, a crime. Unlike her elders, she is not concerned with protecting herself against everything that is not easy and familiar; she reaches out to experience, she embraces life.
Austin Kleon — John Holt, How Children Fail No matter what tests… 7:12pm on August 1, 2016Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
robertogreco 9:32pm on July 26, 2016How to take a compliment:
1) “Thanks for saying that, it means a lot to me.”
2) “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m really going to try to make it true.”
Austin Kleon — How to take a compliment 9:18pm on July 26, 2016MetroCard is from New York City and he never lets you forget it. He has real “attitude.” He is yellow and black, with Cirque du Soleil advertisement on back.
Get Your Money’s Worth | This American Life 8:57pm on July 18, 2016He who seeks truth shall find beauty
He who seeks beauty shall find vanity
He who seeks order shall find gratification
He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed
He who considers himself a servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self expression
He who seeks self expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance
My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything.
teaching literacy. | My two favourite things in life are libraries and… 10:56am on July 16, 2016All immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream. The immigrant’s life is art in its purest form.
‘All Immigrants Are Artists’ – The Atlantic 10:40am on July 16, 2016You can’t be interested in someone who won’t tell you anything. Being good at sharing is not the same as talking and talking and talking. It means you share your ideas, you let people play with them and you’re good at talking about them without having to talk about yourself.
Russell Davies: how to be interesting 9:46pm on July 15, 2016I don’t work. I only know how to have fun every day.
Bill Cunningham New York (2010) – IMDb 9:41pm on July 15, 2016Networks have their place, but that they lack any real ability to nourish their members emotionally. The only ones I consider completely safe are the ones that reject their communal facade, acknowledge their limits, and concentrate solely on helping me do a specific and necessary task.
Austin Kleon — John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden… 7:15pm on July 15, 2016Networks divide people, first from themselves and then from each other, on the grounds that this is the efficient way to perform a task. It may well be, but it is a lousy way to feel good about being alive. Networks make people lonely. They cannot correct their inhuman mechanism and still succeed as networks.
Austin Kleon — John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden… 7:14pm on July 15, 2016I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,” so that the effect of surveillance, if not the surveillance itself, travels into private households, where students might otherwise use free time to learn something unauthorized from a father or mother, by exploration or by apprenticing to some wise person in the neighborhood…. children must be closely watched if you want to keep a society under tight central control. Children will follow a private drummer if you can’t get them into a uniformed marching band.
Austin Kleon — John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden… 7:09pm on July 15, 2016