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"People try to control every aspect of their performance, which is disruptive."
- Sian Beilock

"Practice under pressure makes perfect."
- C.I.A.

“Look, if you really have it, if you’ve had an experience of shunya, of emptiness, and really have penetrated the core of what the Buddhist thought is, you’ll be able to express what that is to a fisherman, to someone who’s uneducated."

- Richard Gere

"Half the world lives on less than $2/day."
- Global Issues

"Even if you have a mediocre therapist, just the fact that you're going is good."
- Adam Carolla

“To me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience; hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin."
- Jack Kerouac

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
- Oscar Wilde

"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."
- French aphorism

"Didn't see no point going to school for something I was already good at."
- Atlantic Canada Marine Mechanic

"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Death has not required us to keep a day free."

- Samuel Beckett

"Embrace yourself then go external."
- Jeff Koons

"All the greatest ideas are simple."
- Damien Hirst

Question: Do you practice?

Buddy Guy: I don't recommend it.

res ipsa loquitur

Who was Shakespeare? One point of view here. Michael Wood presents an alternative compelling case here. 

"One's real life is often the life one doesn't lead."
- Oscar Wilde

routine

Every day Charles Dickens wrote from 9am to 2pm, where he produced lines including "A city dwarfed by its garbage." 

H2O

A Mule Deer can go a year without water.

the odds

"One in 30 million will die in an airplane crash."

"Anxiety comes from not living in the present."

lithium

The lightest metal in the world floats on water.

Recommended Everest guide: http://himalayanexperience.com

"Anyone who doesn't know he's a genius probably isn't."
- Pascal

"It's easier to raise strong children than it is to heal broken men."
- Cory Booker

a place to eat in Florence

www.anticoristorodicambi.it

"Have nothing in it that you know not to be beautiful or useful."
- William Morris

Photo source here.

"The light of the lunar moon can turn you into a lunatic."
- Concept first expressed by the Tudors 

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but triumphing over it."
- Nelson Mandela

the best butcher in Italy

Antica Macelleria Cecchini

"What's in writing stays."

Photo source here.

a place to eat in Rome

Pizzarium

Italian aphorism

"Love yourself as you love your bed."

"Mushroom hunting is a national pastime in Italy. Last year forty-thousand of us were poisoned."
- Gennardo Contaldo

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're not being followed."
- Bob Gruen, Photographer

"Hardly any other creature sees colour, but we do."
- Jordan Peterson, University of Toronto

"The world is made out of order and chaos."
- Taoism

"Pain is the only thing that will make an individual change."
- Rob Smith, Workforce Manager

"We are not descended from fearful men."
- Edward R. Murrow

137 lbs

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
- Bruce Lee

daily diet

32 shots of whiskey plus champagne and 20 cigars

the most successful pirate in history

Sir Francis Drake

A tour of the International Space Station here.

Some surgeons prefer obsidian scalpel blades over metal scalpel blades.

a place to eat in London

http://www.wheelersrestaurant.org

"Never make any enemy by accident."
- Downton Abbey

"Technical problems are way easier to solve than political problems."
- Dean Kamen

20% of the world's population has never used electricity.

performance

There are two kinds of advice:

1. Here's what you should do;
2. Here's what I would do if I were you.

- Jeff Immelt, CEO General Electric 

career advice

"Do what you like - don't reserve it for your hobbies."
- Dropout Dean Kamen 

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
- Mike Tyson