Quote of the Day “[George Orwell wrote] for four basic reasons. First, sheer egoism. The desire to seem clever and to get talked about. Second, aesthetic enthusiasm. The pleasure he gets from playing with sentences and words. But Orwell has
Quote of the Day “The next thing most like living one’s life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
Quote of the Day “Consider a bookmark, a deliberately placed signifier of one’s place in reading a book. But the physical nature of books also makes a bookmark an accidental signifier, for its placement also indicates how much of the
Quote of the Day “In 1735, the Doddington sailed into the York River in Virginia carrying a cargo of a hundred and sixty-seven West African blacks. In or near Yorktown, the ship’s captain traded the blacks for tobacco. One young
Quote of the Day “There is a principle in human perception, the contrast principle, that affects the way we see the difference between two things that are presented one after another. Simply put, if the second item is fairly different
Quote of the Day “The best art divides the audience. If you put out a record, and half the people who hear it absolutely love it, and half the people who hear it absolutely hate it, you’ve done well, because
Quote of the Day “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain, found in Timothy Ferriss’s Tools of Titans
Quote of the Day “The guns aren’t new. The violence isn’t new. The connected cameras are new, and that changes everything.” – Naval Ravikant, found in Timothy Ferriss’s Tools of Titans.
Quote of the Day “Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else (Buddhist saying).” – Naval Ravikant, found in Timothy Ferriss’s Tools of Titans.
Quote of the Day “Enough is as good as a feast.” – Proverb, found in Tools of Titans, by Timothy Ferriss.