A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Regardless of how true this may or may not be, I suspect it’s the sort of quote that only gets reblogged by optimists.
(via aaespo)
Because the Internet is so new we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to what you hear on the telephone. Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’ What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.
Creativity is not something you can run out of. The more you do it, the more ideas there are. you don’t exhaust your great ideas — ever.
You can divide people into two groups: those who divide people into two groups and those who don’t.
Bitterness frequently creeps up on me disguised as wit.
(via travisrandall)
I mis-read this as “Burlesque frequently creeps up on me disguised as wit.”
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.
(Source: BBC)
Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer can make. You have to feel it.
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