Stewart John
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Stewart John
- More information is just a form of procrastination.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- PERICLES
- A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.
- "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this fals... See more
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b
... See more"... at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plus tree, oh that's nice blossom ast wetelooking at it at runs ene of saying ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more tr
... See moreSociology professor Daniel Chambliss, who spent years researching the qualities of elite swimmers, on what creates excellence: "Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together
... See more"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger — something better, pushing right back"
- Albert Camus
- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.