"Luck is where the crossroads of opportunity and preparation meet."
-Seneca

the food many eat

"We're all in line. Some of us are in shorter lines."
- Dustin Hoffman

Criticism of the pre-modern movement: excessive use of resources.

"Tastes like it died screaming."
- Anthony Bourdain

A place to go for oysters in San Francisco

"Limitations bring about genius."
- Terrance Howard in the context of the Sundance Film Festival

"To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell."

- Shakespeare

"[Picasso] turned groceries into masterpieces."

"People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don’t want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either."

- Excerpt from Michael Lewis' 2012 Princeton Commencement speech

"... the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to it's culture; especially a bread grain. Next in value to bread, is oil."
- Thomas Jefferson

"I have always earned my way by my pen and by my tongue."
- Winston Churchill

"[In nature] nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

where Warren Buffett eats

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make time to waste time

"Creativity is the residue of wasted time."
- Einstein

"Every child is born an artist; the problem is when they grow up."
- Picasso

"By its words is a civilization remembered."
- Mayor of London Boris Johnson

"Creativity is connecting things, and most connections come from other people."
- Steve Jobs

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
- Misattributed to Mark Twain

"The acting industry is so difficult. There's so much rejection on every level. Los Angeles is a town where you're never quite enough. At the audition you get the call back, but not the job. You get the job, but you get recast. The pilot goes, but it doesn't go to network. You get an Emmy nomination, but you don't win. You can go to the Vanity Fair party, but not Madonna's after party. There's always a level that you can't quite reach."
- Neil Patrick Harris

"A loser isn't someone who gets involved and comes last. A loser is someone who doesn't get involved in the first place."
- Oscar Pistorius

"I was looking for a dime, but found a quarter."
- Buddy Guy on Muddy Waters

"I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That's a different thing ... Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad - you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year,"

- Ray Bradbury

Source: Andrew Sullivan

"We invented God, but we didn't invent the universe."
- Morgan Freeman

Tennis great Andre Agassi, a 9th grade dropout, created one of America's best preparatory schools: http://www.agassiprep.org

"'Twas I, but ’tis not I. I do not shame
To tell you what I was, since my conversion
So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am."

- Shakespeare, As YouLike It

"No matter where you are in life there's always more journey ahead."
- Nelson Mandela

"If people in your life aren't uncomfortable, you're not really writing. You're not really hitting it. Somebody in your life should be uncomfortable."
- Chris Rock quoting Quentin Tarantino

individuality

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"... we're like blocks of stone, out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of His chisel, which hurt so much, are what makes us perfect." 
- C.S. Lewis