[Garfield] refused to seek an appointment or promotion of any kind. ‘I suppose I am morbidly sensitive about any reference to my own achievements,’ he admitted. ‘I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.’”
“He had sternly instructed his backers that ‘first, I should make no pledge to any man or any measures; second, I should not work for my own nomination.’”
“After a landslide victory [for election to the U.S. Senate], his campaign’s expenses amounted to less than $150
The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading.
Announced Petronius.
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one.
Flaubert put it.
Venomously malignant. Noxious. Blasphemous. Grotesque. Disgusting. Repulsive. Entirely bestial. Indecent.
Being among the critical greetings for Leaves of Grass.
Not to omit ithyphallic audacity.
Plus garbage.
Profound stupidity. Maniacal raving. Pure nonsense.
Among some for the best of Shelley.
Which was also called abominable.
Infantile. Absurd. Driveling. Nauseating.
Reserved for Wordsworth.
The old triumvirate of tyrants in the human soul, the libido sciendi, the libido sentiendi, and the libido dominandi [the lust of the mind, the lust of the flesh and the lust for power], is just as powerful today as it ever was, and no one can ignore its tyranny with impunity.
– James Luther AdamsLearning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.
– Steve JobsLead the people by laws and regulate them by penalties, and the people will try to keep out of jail, but will have no sense of shame. Lead the people by virtue and restrain them by the rules of decorum, and the people will have a sense of shame, and moreover will become good.
– ConfuciusGet rid of the judgement, get rid of the ‘I am hurt,’ you are rid of the hurt itself.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations viii.40Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
– Steve JobsHe who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
– David Mitchell - Cloud AtlasAbout Me
Upon which many were tumbled.
