I ain’t going to give up. Every time you think I’m one place, I’m going to show up someplace else. I come pre-hated. Take your best shot.
~ Cyndi Lauper
Elsewhere, this is 4a1419. — slipbox
Dedication →
Minds →
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
~ Bulwer-Lyton
Elsewhere, this is 4a1418. — slipbox
Projection →
Luck →
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
~ Michael Lewis
Elsewhere, this is 4a1415. — slipbox
Humility →
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Elsewhere, this is 4a1414. — slipbox
Curiosity →
If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. […] Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world. Having a conversation with someone I may disagree with is, I have come to find, a great, life embracing pleasure.
~ Nick Cave
Elsewhere, this is 4a1413. — slipbox
Mind →
Wanting →
The minute you stop wanting something you get it.
~ Andy Warhol
Elsewhere, this is 4a1411. — slipbox
Memento mori →
Thinking →
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
~ John Locke
Elsewhere, this is 4a1409. — slipbox