sticks and stones

"It makes no difference if what they say about you isn't so."
- Harry Truman

friends, family, acquaintances

"For a long time I cared about what they thought of me. Now I care about what I think about them."
- Brooke Astor

Alma mater

Kurt Cobain left resources to his old high-school to fund art scholarships without consideration of academic performance.

tribal

Thomas Gibbons video here.

on redundancy

"Everything has been said, but not everyone has said it yet."
- Hungarian MP

Old Rhyme

We are the pure and chosen few

And all the rest are damned
There’s room enough in hell for you
We don’t want heaven crammed.
- English Calvinism

surprise!

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

- Vladimir Nabokov

on consultants

"An expert is a fast-talking guy from out of town."
- Abbie Hoffman

routine

"5am to 8am is my writing time."
- Patti Smith

routine

"I work from 11am to 3pm Then I go to the gym."
- Ricky Gervais

Philosophy on Trouble

"Don't feed it. Maybe it'll go away."
- Frank Sinatra

setbacks, simpletons, dunderheads

"Any featherhead can be confident in time of Victory. The test is to have faith when things are going badly."
- Winston Churchill

Nelson and Wellington

The only thing Napoleon liked about being incarcerated on St. Helena was the coffee.

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
- Winston Churchill

new language of painting

- Jackson Pollock dripped paint upon canvases on the floor.

42

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." 

- Soren Kierkegaard

dull

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
- Variously attributed

sui generis

"We're not about 'First' we're about 'Best.'
- Tim Cook

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