Practice Forethought:
Imagine how your current actions are going to affect your future self
~ my daily mantra - nutrition, fitness, relationships, finances
My goal is to make it a continuous habit
Why are you looking at me??!
There's a fine line between stalking and romance...
~ Keeley, in Ted Lasso
Indeed...
Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart.
As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make. That doesn’t mean you don’t love the person.
It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right?
It’s a dance. It’s a balance."
~ Gisele Bunchen, speaking about her relationship and ultimate divorce from Tom Brady
Big Bang Wisdom
Howard (to Sheldon): What’s his problem?
Sheldon: He just broke up with his imaginary girlfriend
Howard: Been there!
Geez, Harry, tell us what you really think!
Oppenheimer, when he went into Truman's office with Dean Acheson, said to the latter, wringing his hands: "I have blood on my hands".
Truman later said to Acheson: "Never bring that fucking cretin in here agian. He didn't drop the bomb. I did. That kind of weepiness makes me sick"
~ Source: Jean-Jacques Salomon Science et Politique (1970) - History in Quotations, page 882
Yep
- If you're wrong, admit it.
- If you're confused, ask questions.
- If you're stuck, seek for help.
- If you make mistake, learn from it.
- If you learn something, teach others.
~ Richard Feynman
Imzadi, indeed…
Imzadi (pronounced em-ZAH-dee) was a Betazed word most closely translated as "beloved."It was frequently used as a term of endearment. Deanna Troi telepathically called Commander William T. Riker "imzadi" upon their first meeting on board the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")
~ from Star Trek, the Next Generation
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Released 50 years ago today
Time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells...
~ Pink Floyd (David Jon Gilmour, George Roger Waters,
Richard William Wright, Niclas Brekley Mason)
I'll start asking myself this!
What soothes you?
~ Daily question posed by Christina Caron in a NYT article How to Find More Joy in Your Day
Something to ponder...
A strange passion is moving in my head. My heart has become a bird, which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so, that the one I love is everywhere?
~ Rumi
True then. True now?
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
Yep
Relationships are complicated.
Intense passion makes people do crazy things.
~ Gabriel, to Emily, in Emily in Paris
This...
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read.The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think.The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
~ Thomas Sowell
Yikes!
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls, in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
It would essentially be a system of slavery, where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitude.
~ Aldous Huxley
Seems reasonable
Pundits aren't paid to be right. They're paid to be loud.The sooner everyone realizes this, the better off we'll all be.
~ found on the interwebs
One of my musical heroes...
I'm trying to find out what the top
of the mountain looks like,
and the only way to get there
is by playing every night like
it's my last chance to get this right.
~ Ron Carter (jazz bassist)
In cars...or in life...either works
Big mess, big success.Let's get dirty!
~ Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. creative car designer
Professionalism...
The five people who showed up at your gig deserve the same show you would have given to the 500 people who didn't show up.
~ Joe Quintana
Fires, indeed!
Mike (Jimmy Stewart): There's a magnificence in you, Tracy.
Tracy (Katherine Hepburn): Now...I'm getting self-conscious.
Mike: A magnificence that comes out of your eyes and your voice, and way you stand there and the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you - hearth fires and holocausts!
~ The Philadelphia Story
They have definitions for everything!
In her surveys of 3,000 couples in long-term relationships, Dr. Fraser has found that roughly 33 to 40 percent report that they are in a sexless relationship, clinically defined as having sex together no more than six times a year.
~ in The New York Times
Hanlon got it…
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately be explained by stupidity.
~ Hanlon’s Razor
Yep
One of the signs of intelligence is to be able to accept facts without being offended.
~ Richard Feynman
Who you callin' eccentric?
One should never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
~ Biloxi Blues
Yep
There are two kinds of men in the world - those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt, and those who have never heard of her.
~ Willie Nelson
I'll take your advice, Tom!
Do not neglect your music,
it will be a companion that will sweeten many hours of life to you.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Yummy!
I got me an emotional support pet.
It is a chicken.
It's crispy.
It also came with a biscuit.
~ Jacques Pepin
Decent question
Why do men instinctively pull on the loose threads of their parachutes?
~ Harlan Thromby, in Knives Out
What do you call it, indeed?
And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want.
What do you call it - freedom or loneliness?
~ Charles Bukowski
I love a great story!
Even long after you've finished them, some books outright refuse to leave you alone.
The stubbornness of a great story is truly priceless.
~ Jonathon Edward Durham
Awesomely put!
Think not of the books you've bought as a 'to be read' pile.
Instead, think of your bookcase as a 'wine cellar'.
You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.
~ Luc van Donkersgoed
My mantra for today
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Seems reasonable
Lady taking a pill: The doctor gave me vitamins...I have a condition where I need to be happier.
~ seen on The Connors TV show
Accuracy IS important!
Scott: "Lincoln died three centuries ago on a planet hundreds of light years away." (gestures)Spock: "More that direction, Engineer." (gestures in the opposite direction)
~ Star Trek TOS, Season 3, The Savage Curtain
A bit spicy...
Bond: Who are you?
Pussy Galore: Pussy Galore
Bond: I know, but what's your name?
~ original dialogue (subsequently changed), in Goldfinger
Perhaps
We’d be in a much better place if the 99% of us who aren’t offended by everything quit catering to the 1% who are.
~ found on the internet
Truth
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
~ Upton Sinclair
Absence to value presence...
Life is so ironic.
It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence.
And absence to value presence.
~ unknown
Beautiful
And it's a fair windBlowin' warm out of the south over my shoulderGuess I'll set a course and go
~ Wooden Ships, David Crosby (who died this week)
Who's the sucker?
Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
~ Amarillo Slim, legendary poker player
Never more true than today's work environment
Never be loyal. "Act loyal", but never be loyal, for your own sanity.Capitalists could care less about you even as they ask you personal questions and "fake act" like a "family".
Never be loyal to someone who pays you for work.
~ read on The NY Times comments section, regarding January 2022 layoffs in the tech work force
And astronauts
If kids knew what they wanted to be at age 8, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses.
~ Bill Maher
Bewildered is my current state of mind - maybe I'm lost!
I have never been lost, but I've been bewildered for three days.
~ Daniel Boone
Perhaps...
No, that is the greatest fallacy: the wisdom of old men.
They do not grow wise.
They grow careful.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My dad's favorite joke
How Do you Catch a Polar Bear?
You go to the Arctic, and cut a hole in the ice.
You take a can of peas and line the hole with the peas.
Then, when the polar bear comes up to take a pea,
you kick him in the ice hole!
(then Dad would laugh uproariously!)
Ouch!
When you're dead, you don't know that you're dead;
All the pain is felt by other people.
Same thing happens when you're stupid.
~ found on the interwebs
I was once asked, "What are your expectations?"
Someone asked me, "Who hurt you so badly?"I replied, "My own expectations.”
~ Shannon L. Alder
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