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“It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.”
Simon Sarris • Efforts and Goals and Joy
You don't have to prove anything. You can just try things.
Empirical insight is often superior to rational insight.
Simon Sarristwitter.comThe wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. A man who has worked long hours all his life will be bored if he becomes suddenly idle. But without a considerable amount of leisure a man is cut off from many of the best things. There is no longer any reason why the bulk of the population should suffer this
... See moreBertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness
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All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Bertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Allen Pike • An Unreasonable Amount of Time
Normal behavior is forgotten. Only weird behavior survives.
Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected.
Normal behavior costs nothing in the short term — but it disappears into the abyss.
Unconventional behavior costs a social price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets... See more
Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected.
Normal behavior costs nothing in the short term — but it disappears into the abyss.
Unconventional behavior costs a social price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets... See more
