Archive for September, 2006

On News
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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 [...]

On Believeability
Thursday, September 7th, 2006

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 [...]

On Determination
Monday, September 4th, 2006

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 [...]

On Play
Monday, September 4th, 2006

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.”

On Problems
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

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.”