It’s unfair to compare Android tablets to the Titanic. History shows that the Titanic didn’t back away from the iceberg and then ram it again, twice. Here’s what could be coming from Apple at WWDC – Chicago Sun-Times Source: suntimes.com
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Don’t read a book once carefully. Read it 10 times, 100 times, sloppily. AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2012-04-29 | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Source: alljapaneseallthetime.com
What is the most important lesson life has taught you? There is always another game on Saturday. Q&A: Ken Loach | Life and style | The Guardian Source: Guardian
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, a Unitarian minister, summed it up decades ago: The master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his work and his play, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through …
mothgirlwings: Happy Birthday, Marilyn Monroe – June 1rst, 1926 “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” Source: mothgirlwings
Fritz on happiness
What is more important than happiness is involvement. We want to be involved with our lives, other people, projects, and the creative process. In that involvement, we will experience a range of moods, emotions, feelings from high to low. It comes with the territory. And, in those wonderful moments, when you are happy, it is …
Many pro authors say you should try a dumb trick if your writing is moving frustratingly slowly: just banish a certain part of your A to Z for a bit. This paragraph can’t contain any “A”s. Try it. You find that your brain has to slow down and focus on that arbitrary limit. It distracts …
Nietzsche on the dangers of waiting
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Writing Is a Business
“Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.” —Henry Denker Writing Is a Business
Self-Denial
“A character who needs the accoutrements of worldly success will never be seen by the audience as heroic. Heroes are invariably ascetic, denying themselves pleasures and comforts that ordinary people take for granted.… In war films, the hero often declines invitations to partake of food or sex…. The hero can’t relax, can’t have fun. In …
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