incrementalism

“Little by little, one travels far.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

apostle

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
- Mattew 16:26

shoes

A new doc about Imelda Marcos and the Philippines here.

The Art of Advertising

“Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.”
– David Ogilvy

Duchess

"The point of life is not just to survive something, but to thrive, be happy."
- Meghan Markle

Athenian

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
– Euripides [480 - 406 BCE]

southern gothic

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
- Flannery O'Connor

can money buy us happiness?

Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2015, gives his answer here.

acrobat

“I improve on misquotation.”
– Cary Grant

acumen

"I've turned my mental illness into a business model."
- Stephen Colbert

novus homo

“The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail. Mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.”
– Sallust [86-35 BCE]

fantasy novelist

“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
– Sir Terry Pratchett

advantage

“When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.”
– Steffi Graf

10000 hours

"I grew up in a musical family. When my father was declining, I took over the piano. I stored it all, which prepared me for the Beatles."
- Sir Paul McCartney

where the bison play

"Ever since I was a little boy, I've been in "survival mode."
- Ted Turner

ministry of silly walks

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
– John Cleese

Or fail to do

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

- Jane Austen

founding father

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
- George Washington

history

Source here.

you're fired

Before making it big, Walt Disney was fired for not being creative enough. Jerry Seinfeld and Thomas Edison were also fired in their early careers. 

natural resources

Source: CIA Factbook

mashugana

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”
– Fran Lebowitz

in the moment

“True happiness is… to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.”
- Seneca [c. 4 BCE – AD 65]

on buddhism

on creativity

“The future is uncertain, but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”
– Ilya Prigogine

epic failure until he wasn't

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Impressionism

Monet studied landscapes; Renoir studied people.

warrior monk

"You're technically illiterate unless you've read at least a couple of hundred books."
- General James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who has a 7000 volume library

on anxiety

Themistocles

god is dead

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche [1844 - 1900]

polytheistic axiom

"Rome can only succeed with the gods on its side."

on history

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
- Cicero [106 BC – 7 December 43 BCE]

personal computing

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
– Bill Gates

stoic

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

- Marcus Aurelius [112 AD - 180 AD]

M*A*S*H

first self-made man

"I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man."

- Themistocles [c.524 BCE - 459 BCE]

father of geometry

"QED - Quod erat demonstrandum"
- Euclid [Mid-4th century - Mid-5th century BCE]

father of engineering

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.” 

- Archimedes [c. 287 – c. 212 BCE]

father of Athens

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
- Pericles [c. 495 – 429 BCE]

so gay

"You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates."
- President Richard M. Nixon

father of philosophy

"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
- Socrates [c. 470 – 399 BCE]

father of medicine

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

- Hippocrates [c. 460 – c. 370 BCE]

the first celebrity

"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
- Lord Byron [1788-1824]

father of history

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

- Herodotus [c. 484 – c. 425 BCE]

father of comedy

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."
- Aristophanes [c. 460 - c. 380 BCE]

father of sculpture

- Polykleitos [5th century BCE]

TKO

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

theoretical physics

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein

theoretical physics

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
– Max Planck

woeful unawareness

“I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts”
― Munia Khan

enervating

“Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
– William James