Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy
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But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life – winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can’t ‘rationally’ transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
Marianne Williamson
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Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.
Henry David Thoreau
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I love to go on stage and sing.
Henry Rollins
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
Zachary Taylor
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
Simon Sinek
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You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Denzel Washington
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
Got any book recommendations?