Today is a day that requires a lot of thinking.
I spend time listening to music.
And reading quotations.
Here are a few that caught my eye.
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
― John Lubbock
“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.”
― Georges F. Doriot
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
—Gore Vidal, dead at 86
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Hermann Zschiegner writes: “On January 6, 2008 — continuing her message of peace — Yoko Ono took out a full-page ad in the New York Times with a simple, yet familiar message: Imagine Peace. I placed a simple cardboard cutout with the word WAR over her advertising and didn’t remove it until August 19, 2010, the day the last US combat brigade left Iraq. The sun had yellowed the paper and a trace of the word WAR was left, slowly fading away as sunlight now hits the original ad.”
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look’d down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack’d from side to side;
“The curse is come upon me,” cried
The Lady of Shalott.
― Alfred Tennyson, The Lady Of Shalott
“I like to call in sick to work at places where I’ve never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don’t work there, I tell them I’d like to. But not today, as I’m sick.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
