"For seven years I ate at Bob’s Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee—with lots of sugar. And there’s lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It’s a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob’s."
David Lynch.
opening speech on HBO’s “the Newsroom” (by Ken Miller)
"It’s not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it’s about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then you’ll be a great cook. If it’s only about passion, sometimes you’ll be good and sometimes you won’t. You’ve got to come in every day with a strong desire. With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.”
- Thomas Keller"
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Living and Longevity (by bigthink)
"The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.”
Warren Buffet"
After years of hearing one of my mom’s friend openly claiming “the less you know, the less you do”, this one give me a huuuge smile on my face.
"Capitalism means male baldness research gets more funding than malaria."
Bill Gates, via Kanyi Maqubela. (via zachklein)
(via zachklein)
"When children have nothing to do now, they immediately switch on the TV, the computer, the phone or some kind of screen. The time they spend on these things has increased. But children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them."
Yoko Ono has tweeted this image of John Lennon’s bloodstained glasses together with a message about how many people have been killed by guns in the U.S. since his death. The message reads: Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the U.S.A since John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
This Morning OST
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