i’m orange peels. i’m coffee grounds. i’m wisdom.
Marjory The Trash Heap, Fraggle Rock, Season 1, Episode 1
Quotes
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill (via mellabrown:vereteno:zeastwood-bloom:somethingmoreproductive) (via subcreation)
There is no language without deceit.
Italo Calvino (via 52books)
Each new fad calls attention to one virtue or another—first it’s efficiency, then quality, next it’s customer satisfaction, then supplier satisfaction, then self-satisfaction, and finally, at some point, it’s efficiency all over again. If it’s reminiscent of the kind of toothless wisdom offered in self-help literature, that’s because management theory is mostly a subgenre of self-help. Which isn’t to say it’s completely useless. But just as most people are able to lead fulfilling lives without consulting Deepak Chopra, most managers can probably spare themselves an education in management theory.
“The Management Myth,” Matthew Stewart The Atlantic Online (via somethingchanged)
The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659 – 1719) (via blogut) (via quote-book)
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven (via blogut) (via quote-book)
Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.
William J. H. Boetcker (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley (via crookedtooth)
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.
Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring.
U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles (via johannal) (via quote-book)
No longer does the aspiring teenage punk rocker, confined to a dreary and un-hip rural or suburban existence, have to feel isolated and alone. Sure, his classmates may think the Gaslight Anthem is a Frank Sinatra song, but he can easily find the band’s music, clothing and, more importantly, the peers he craves with the help of the Internet.
We Are United in Our Digital Isolation, PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
What if a print magazine used the same template for every article? It would be pretty boring, no?
The Death Of The Blog Post – Smashing Magazine (via fluffynotes)
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
Alex Levine
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
Harry Mahtar
Other people will edit you your whole life. They’ll take what you say and keep the bits they like and throw away the rest.
Don’t edit yourself. Let other people do it for you.
(via I wrote this for you) (via kari-shma) (via ireadintothings)
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso (via firstmillionsketches) (via subcreation)
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, 1674
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and as sweet as love.
Turkish proverb (via shonpapri)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.
Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
Dutch Proverb
Coffeehouse Junkie 