Brain Food Nuggets (99-100)

Clementinum National Library, Czech RepublicThe buffet awaits:

o “One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.” Russell Brand

o “That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” Charlie Chaplin

o “The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” Annie Dillard

o “Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.” Milton Glaser

o “I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you f—ing like something, like it.” Dave Grohl

o “Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.” Dan Harmon

o “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.” Steve Jobs

o “‘The cat sat on a mat’ is not a story. ‘The cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is a story.” John le Carré

o “Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.” Michael Lewis

o “Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.” Derek Silver

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