tangible, vivid, cinematic

"The most important artist of the counter reformation because [Caravaggio] reinvented religious art."

subjects

"Generally they're very happy for me to [photograph them]."
- Lana Slezic

"the long game"

"Never try to be the best. Try to be second best."
- Paul Smith

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on success

"It's not just talent and it's not just working hard; you need to spot luck and timing, I think."
- Jamie Oliver, who has sold more books in the UK than anyone else other than J.K. Rowling

washington d.c.'s biggest lobbyists

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Albert Einstein had a marriage contract drawn up with his first wife Mileva Maric. Among the stipulations was that she was to stop talking whenever he requested.

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entrepreneur

After flunking the LSAT and selling fax machines door to door for 7 years, Sara Blakely's first stops on her way to creating Spanx and becoming a billionaire:

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Canadians start here.

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"By the age of three, children know 100 brands."
- Martin Lindstrom, Brandwashed

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“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

- Eugene O"Neill

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sun the destroyer

"The modern artist must [go deep] to make any difference at all."
- Francis Bacon

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"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
- Spanish proverb

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"If you're winning usually it's calmer waters as opposed to losers in this space like Google who lurch from one thing to the next."
- Jeremy Stoppelman, cofounder Yelp, Inc.

"goon"

Bob Probert - undisputed all time NHL heavyweight champion.

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david v goliath

"From 12th century Jewish philosophy, hope is the belief in the plausibility of the possible as opposed to the necessity of the probable. In other words, to be a realist is to recognize that the world is not a domain where the probable always happens."
- Marshall Ganz, Harvard University

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"Five years ago BlackBerry had 53% of the SmartPhone market; today their market share  is 2%."
- CNN

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"Until the lion tells his own story, the tale will continue to glorify the hunter."
- African proverb

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Sir Norman Foster's Beijing Airport is the largest covered structure in the world.

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The most awarded sailor in the world

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Mark Twain defined an expert as "an ordinary fellow from another town".

"I had all the disadvantages I needed to be successful."
- Larry Ellison

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what is gluten?

What they sang as the Titanic went down here.

"Kill the thing that's inside of you that's holding you back."
- John Oliver

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art is reflective of the times

"Grecian statues have movement whereas Roman statues are static."
- Stephen Stills

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"I always feel lonely"

Arshile Gorky was the last surrealist and first abstract impressionist.

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Life is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone —
Kindness in another’s trouble.
Courage in your own.
- Adam Lindsay Gordon

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"It's dangerous not to evolve; to ensure your extinction cease to evolve."
- Jeff Bezos

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trend

Since 2005 print advertising revenue has fallen from $49.5 billion to $22.3 billion in 2012, while digital advertising has grown from $12.5 billion in 2005 to $36.6 billion in 2012.
- Meet The Press

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"If you can get computers to learn that's worth 10xs Microsoft."
- Bill Gates

The Brain

100 billion neurons connected by 100 thousand billion synapses.  

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"On average each of us has 100 trillion cells, 85% of which are bacteria and protozoa."
- Patricia Richardson, Biologist

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When Arnold Schwarzenegger met Pope John Paul II in 1983, they talked about workouts. The pope rose daily at 5 a.m. to do 250 push ups, sit ups, pull ups.

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routine

"I had the words of the sentence yesterday, but I got the order right today."
- James Joyce

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pioneer

"Everybody is simply improvising (without screenwriter words)."
- Steven Spielberg upon receiving the Thalberg award 

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

- Aristotle

"I go and see Hamlet every ten years and I see that Shakespeare has rewritten it."
- Dorothy Parker

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"If the music is square it's because I like it square."
- President Richard Nixon introducing "The Ray Conniff Singers" 

Hours spent yearly watching TV: 200 billion
- Clay Shirky, NYU

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In infants, neurons grow at the rate of 700 per second.

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"Win it, then there's misery."
- Pat Riley

Turmoil & Tension

"This is not a game for the most well adjusted people."
- Bill Parcells

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Muhammad's Medina message

"Spread peace, feed people food and do some devotional practice and you'll enter Paradise without any trouble."
- Hamza Yusuf Hanson

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scale

"A nano is to a football what a football is to the earth."
- James Dyson

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unpromising

Stephen Hawking didn't learn to read until he was 8.

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"Exert yourself to even greater efforts."
- Emperor Hirohito's World War II mantra

for movie stars

"It takes five years before you can see yourself in a film."
- Roger Ebert

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essence

"Everyone is a Buddha to be awakened."

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dancing

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels."
- Vince Gilligan

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"Globally more people have mobile phones than sanitation."
- Matt Damon

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