Aleister Crowley:
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
Ben Hecht:
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand [...]
Ray Charles:
“With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a song and they say, “Oh, that must have happened to him,” that’s when you know you’re transmitting. It’s like being a good actor. You make people feel things, emotions, and whatnot. But you gotta start with [...]
Admiral James Stockdale, the highest ranking US military officer imprisoned in Vietnam. :
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
After his release, Stockdale became the [...]
Brian Sulton-Smith, professor at the University of Pennsylvania:
“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.”
Karl Popper:
“The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.”