A great reminder to stay a little bit awake as I move through the day. “You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” — Jimmy Dean
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Jacques Barzun on True Work
I cannot remember where I got this quote, but it impressed itself on me so much that I had it posted in my office cubicles for years, on my old Google blog site, and on my old Tumblr site. I love it so much I want to post it again. “True Work is that which …
Tom Hardy on The Sanity of Actors
“A performer is asked to do two things,” [the actor Tom Hardy] tells me. “To be disciplined and accountable, communicative and a pleasure to work with. And then, within a split second, they’re asked to be a psychopath. Authentically. It takes a very strong human being to sustain a genuine sense of well-being through that …