on zero

"Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand."
- Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

soothing

"There are no mistakes, just happy accidents."
- Bob Ross

The happiest country in the world

Rent or buy your own reasonably priced compound here. Educate yourself here.

little boys with power

"The intent of hazing is to humiliate, torture, breakdown."
- Hazing Awareness

different sameness

Suburb in Havana

"I have to change to remain the same."
- Willem de Kooning

The Gallery of the Louvre

- S.F.B Morse

links

fakest news

"If you can find the right balance between fear and desperation, you can make people believe anything."
- Trevor Noah

Zen of Surfing

"Your attention is so focused in the barrel ride you can't think about anything else."
- Kelly Slater

Man in ultimate pain

Laocoön

Money

"Without it you lost status, face, respect."
- Simon Schama on Rembrandt's bankruptcy 

technique

"Thick wall of paint."

taste

"Have nothing in your home that isn't beautiful or useful."
- William Morris

matriculation

"Life is a cool teacher. First she loves to give you a lesson. And then you'll learn sooner or later."
- Daymond John

change never changes

Eric Clapton:

What you're going through now might just actually be a phase. Your set of values might not exist in the next two years.

Jimi Hendrix:

Oh, beautiful!

where to authenticate your Renoir

Bernheim-Jeune, Galerie & Editeur d'Art

stop

"It's important to quit in life until you end up where you want to be."
- Bobcat Goldthwait

on speed

"There are infinitely worse ways than to die in a car accident."

- Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, FIAT

leverage kills

"He who panics doesn't appreciate the gravity of the situation."
- Axiom embraced by Thomas Caldwell

very difficult to stop

Stones rolling downhill.

on originality

"There's only one person in the world qualified to be you. And that's you!"
- Mister Rogers

a pledge as an 11 year old

"If there's anything I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be a badass."

- Teddy Roosevelt #DrunkHistory

origins

"Religion, tribe, ideals."
- Human beings can be rallied around one of three things

fear is the mind killer

"When you laugh you can think; when you're afraid you can't think."
- Stephen Colbert

yell quietly

"Confidence is silent; insecurity is loud."
- Axiom

some men you just can't reach

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

plus tithes

"The point of Pilgrimages was to contemplate relics."
- Lord Clark

on letting go

Col. Trautman:

It's over, Johnny. It's over!

Rambo:

NOTHING IS OVER! NOTHING!

empathetic dictator

"The idea that you need to be a monster to create interesting work needs to be squelched."
- Bradly Whitford on working with Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood

Harvard "D" student

“The real spiel I have for you is to have a good time while you are in your jobs. Have a good time. The newspaper will be great if you’re having a good time.”
- Ben Bradlee to graduates at the Columbia School of Journalism, May 2007

careful

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
― G.K. Chesterton

Life is

" ... a dream. A frightful dream."
- Commodus, Gladiator

skull jockey

"It's profound to be understood."

dogs bite the anxious

Here.

The Wall

"As of this week, the Berlin Wall has been down for longer than it was up."

annoyance correlates with success