“My deep down belief about how to build a baseball team is at odds with my day-to-day personality. It’s a constant struggle for me.”
Billy Beane in Moneyball
Tag: quotes
The Divided Brain
Loved the ending:
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. The rational mind is a faithful servant.” – Einstein
We have created a society that honours the servant but has forgotten the gift.
To all my young friends out there Don’t…
To all my young friends out there:
Don’t worry about avoiding temptation – as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~Author Unknown
One life. Live it.
Books, Writing & Young Readers
‘You sound critical.’
‘ I am only pointing to the obvious. If he hadn’t wasted so much of his life correcting students’ grammar and sitting through boring meetings, he might have written more, perhaps even bwritten better. But he was not a child. He knew what he was doing. He made his choice.’
‘On the other hand, being a teacher allowed him contact with a younger generation. Which he might not have had, had he withdrawn from the world and devoted himself solely to writing.’
Interesting point in that last sentence. Wonder how current writers maintain contact with the younger generations. Or is that another reason why the younger generations have given up on reading books for leisure, with the exception of fantasy genre – the writers are so out of touch with them they can’t relate to any bit of the books.
Why write?
A conversation about writing books, from the book ‘Summertime’ by J.M. Coetzee:
‘Do you really believe that? That books give meaning to our lives?’
‘Yes. A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. What else should it be?’
‘A gesture of refusal in the face of time. A bid for immortality.’
There’s more: though it drags a little, I like the way it ends (after the break)
I hope that in the afterlife we will…
I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to people we have wronged. I’ll have plenty of sorries to say, believe you me.
J M Coetzee, in Summertime
What I was determined to avoid was emotional…
What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another.
J M Coetzee, in Summertime
Leslie Winkle Yes Leslie Winkle The answer to…
Leslie Winkle.
Yes, Leslie Winkle. The answer to the question, ‘Who made Sheldon cry like a little girl?’
BBT
Freedom of Expression
Two favourite quotes:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall
“I love the idea of free speech – it gives everyone a right to willingly demonstrate their biases, ignorance and even idiocy” – Romeo Bravo Xray
Which are yours?
The fight is not against the hill it’s…
The fight is not against the hill; it’s against your self.
Edmund Hillary