sewing seeds of doubt

 

why people go into it

"Stand-up comedy is controlling the reason why people laugh at you."
- Harry Shearer [born 1943]

on overcoming depression

"I catch it early. I ask myself: Do I really want to be thinking this the whole day?"
- Bill Burr [born 1968]

Writer of "Fight Club" talks bullies

He notes that it's about humiliation and mainly making up for classroom learning difficulties. And that beauty as a child can be a liability as it makes one a target. 

 

on other people

"Stop trying to change them; treat them like houseplants."

- Robert Greene [born 1959]

father of history

“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
― Herodotus

dogs bite the anxious

Here.

ascension

"When you go up, you don't have a flight plan. You just go where the wind takes you."
- On fate

on suboptimal relationships

Dominance. Control. Power. Ego.

18th century branding

"Happy is he who escapes me."
- Blunderbuss

the clock has run out

America Ferrera speaks about the legal fund established to protect both women and men against sexual harassment, here.

spiritual street philosophy

"5% know the truth; 10% control it; 85% are deaf, dumb and blind."
- Talib Kweli

you're still the pilot

"Fly the plane as far as you can into the crash."
- Aviation axiom

flooring it

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

champ

"If you're completely in control, you're not in the race."
- Mario Andretti

control

"I left the department store business because I couldn't stand not controlling my own product, from how it's manufactured to how it's sold."

- Mickey Drexler, CEO of Gap

the harder I work the luckier I get

Q: How do you do so many things at once and how do you cope with it?

A: I'm going to let the universe bring to me whatever. I'm going to be open to receive it. But I'm also going to be prepared to change direction. I'm not going to be all locked down and closed and trying to control every moment of the day.