Choose wisely

What it is that you choose
to concern yourself with
determines who you are.
There are no wasted lives.

                    Werner Erhard

 

 

 

 

 

A game worth playing

Seek, above all
for a game worth playing.
If life does not seem to offer
a game worth playing,
then invent one.

                Robert S. de Ropp 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember?

I'm not a person who thinks the world
would be entirely different if it was run by women.
If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

                Madeline Albright, Quoted in Time magazine 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Three qualities

In looking for people to hire,
you look for three qualities:
integrity, intelligence, and energy.
And if they don't have the first,
the other two will kill you.

                   Warren Buffet

 

 

 

 

 

Kidnapped

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work"
because I think that just being alive is so much work
at something you don't always want to do.
Being born is like being kidnapped.
And then sold into slavery.
People are working every minute.
The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

               Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
But what will happen in all the other days that ever come
can depend on what you do today.

             Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

 

 

 

 

 

Denial

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person,
if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—
as men have done to women,
and class has done to class,
and nation has done to nation—
you may hate it, or deify it,
but in either case you have denied
its spiritual equality, and its human reality.
You have made it into a thing,
to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship.
And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.

                          Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night