on humility

"When you think you're important, think again. You're not."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins

a place to eat in Florence

Here.

effort

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years-
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres-
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholy new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate,
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate - but there is no competition -
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

― T.S. Eliot

on innovation

"If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting."
- Jeff Bezos

serenity now

"I love art, but I just don't think it's valuable."
- Jerry Seinfeld

high-octane

"He who has a Why to live, can bear with almost any How."
- Nietzsche

no more than two martinis each

The Dukes Bar will not serve you more than two martinis each as no ice cubes are utilized. 

mantra

"Fix the earth."
- George Clooney

tempus fugit

"Art is the attempt to preserve imagination against time."

"enjoy it while you can."

"Success is not a permanent state."
- George Clooney

Fear of darkness

"I sleep with the light on."
- Luciano Pavarotti

on mentorship

"The image of great men is woven into other lives."
- Greek aphorism

Tik Toc

"Too old soon; too late smart."
- German aphorism

paradox

"The saint has sinned; the sinner shall be sanctified."

Fred and Ginger

Frank Gehry's "Dancing House"

texture to your art

A 3D rendering of art:

http://www.generalpublic.art

the life of an artist

"Continual pursuit of the impossible."
- Alberto Giacometti, whose work commands $140 million, but nonetheless lived squalidly 

The Maestro and The Master

Building an opera house in St. Petersburg here.

Opera Box in the Sky

Yale happiness course

Available here.

A place to eat and stay in London

Here.

Need roof work?

If you need work done in this area ...

... contact:

"world's best bread"

Delivered to your door globally here.

convicts talking

San Quentin's podcast here.

how to make people laugh

beyond comprehension

To count to 16.5 trillion (the equivalent of the current federal debt), would take 500k years.

New York to Tokyo in 30 minutes

genius throw down

"The wind they fart from their asshole."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Alzheimer's

"You forget everything but the grudge."
- Francis Ford Coppola

filing system

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

- Albert Einstein