Bits and pieces

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:11:44 +0400

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

- Mark Twain

"Если бы люди заботились о достижении гармонии и во всем полагались на Провидение, на душе у них было..."

Sat, 14 May 2011 16:22:00 +0400

“Если бы люди заботились о достижении гармонии и во всем полагались на Провидение, на душе у них было бы спокойно. Но поскольку люди не заботятся о достижении гармонии, хотя они и совершают добродетельные поступки, им недостает преданности. Быть не в ладах со своими соратниками, хотя бы изредка не посещать общие собрания, язвительно выражаться в адрес других — все это не от большого ума.”

- Хагакурэ

"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:46:36 +0300

“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.”

- Francoise Sagan (via kari-shma)

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of..."

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:45:50 +0300

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”

- David Sedaris (via bbook)

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:39:37 +0300

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

- Marcel Proust

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by..."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:15:18 +0300

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

- Anais Nin (via momopotato)

"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:58:47 +0300

“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”

- Chinese Proverb (via quote-book)

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will..."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:56:19 +0300

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

- Maya Angelou (via @johannal)

"[A]bove all let there be pleasure. Let there be textural delight, let there be silken words and..."

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:29:25 +0300

“[A]bove all let there be pleasure. Let there be textural delight, let there be silken words and flinty words and sodden speeches and soaking speeches and crackling utterance and utterance that quivers and wobbles like rennet. Let there be rapid firecracker phrases and language that oozes like a lake of lava.”

- Stephen Fry on not minding your language. From the same essay: “In life you have to explain wine. You have to explain cheese. You have to explain love. You can’t, but you have to try, or if not try you have, surely, to be aware of the astonishing fact of them.” (via bobulate)

"We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give."

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:16:46 +0300

“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.”

- Winston Churchill

"All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony; then you will gain peace."

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:16:02 +0300

“All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony; then you will gain peace.”

- Jalal-Ud-Din Rumi, Persian poet 1207-1293

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:38:38 +0300

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

- Marcel Proust (via toolkitsforuserdriveninnovation)

Photo

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:37:11 +0400

"[T]here are two kinds of purposes. The purpose of having a result, something that exists after the..."

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:11:42 +0400

“[T]here are two kinds of purposes. The purpose of having a result, something that exists after the process is stopped, and does not exist until it has stopped, … and there is the purpose of carrying on, of keeping the process going, just as one may breathe so as to continue breathing. The purpose is to carry on.”

- John Chris Jones, Welsh designer and author of book Design Methods. Hurry off to read the full text. [via] (via bobulate)

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:17:49 +0400

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

- Edmund Burke

"Its habit of getting up late you’ll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it..."

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:27:37 +0400

“Its habit of getting up late you’ll agree
That it carries too far, when I say
That it frequently breakfasts at five-o’clock tea,
And dines on the following day.”

- The hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll

"It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be..."

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:59:50 +0300

““It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the “parlour families” today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not. No, no, it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.””

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via colporteur) (via quote-book) (via ashalynd)

"Everyone gets a certain look when I use that word. Moral. It’s a word with very bad PR, thanks..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:06:00 +0300

““Everyone gets a certain look when I use that word. Moral. It’s a word with very bad PR, thanks to certain pressure groups that have come and gone over the last several decades.” … “However, it was one of the tenets of the church I grew up in, waiting to use something until you’re moral enough. It sounded like a great idea. But according to the church, we’re only moral enough for a very simple level of living.”
…
“Obviously, a better idea is to be, oh, immoral enough to manipulate something instead of being manipulated by it.””

- Synners, by Pat Cadigan

“Junbi Taiso,” by Nev Sagiba

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:01:51 +0300

“Junbi Taiso,” by Nev Sagiba:

In the equestrian world, non-riders, in a similar way like to think that horses are for sitting on and they can’t wait to hop on. They get dumped. If you don’t understand a horse from the ground up, you will never be a true rider, merely a bully with no understanding. In the few instances I’ve taught people to ride they do not get to sit on a horse until they are ready. If that takes six months then that’s what it takes. They first have to develop a relationship with the horse on the ground and get to understand and be understood by the horse. Just as with horse sense, Aiki sense begins from the ground up. Positioning is paramount in both instances. If you can’t catch a horse on open ground by drawing the horse to you, you are no horseman. Until then you do not really deserve to ride or be considered a rider. The true equestrian catches untamed horses like this as well. It’s nothing mystical, but a skill. There’s no need for hard chases, yards, ropes, pulleys and buck jumping. That’s for the unskilled.

"Life is like a gathering at the Olympic festival, to which, having set forth from different lives..."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:01:49 +0300

“Life is like a gathering at the Olympic festival, to which, having set forth from different lives and backgrounds, people flock for three motives. To compete for the glory of the crown, to buy and sell or as spectators. So in life, some enter the services of fame and others of money, but the best choice is that of these few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.”

- Pythagoras