October 2018 – A Pondering Mind

Going To The Cinema ~ Federico Fellini

“Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.”
~ Federico Fellini

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ~ Fran Lebowitz

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

River Of Dreams ~ Billy Joel

“We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams.
We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.”
~ Billy Joel

I’m Still Learning About Music ~ Tony Bennett

“I’m still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.”
~ Tony Bennett

Peace Begins From Within

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. ~ Albert Einstein

Writing Slowly With Revisions ~ Jack Kerouac

“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”
~ Jack Kerouac

The Beat Generation ~ Jack Kerouac

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
~ Jack Kerouac

If You Tell A True Story, You Can’t Be Wrong. ~ Jack Kerouac

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

People Know What They Do ~ Michel Foucault

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
~ Michel Foucault

Visitors

Accept The Obvious

“The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.”
~ Dick Gregory

The Secret To Happiness ~ Bertrand Russell

“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
~ Bertrand Russell

Emily Dickinson Poem

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
~Emily Dickinson, “A Word is Dead

Caffeine Use ~ Greg Egan

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
~Greg Egan, “Distress”

Controlling The Mind ~ Edward Bernays

“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
~ Edward Bernays

On Writing ~ E. L. Doctorow

Common Sense ~ H. L. Mencken

Voltaire Quote

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
-Voltaire

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: Lie

“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe

A Third Choice ~ Meg White, Musician

Kindness Is Not An Act

Edward R. Murrow Quote

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
~ Edward R. Murrow

Emotion

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
~ Robert Frost

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote: Wisdom

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ray Bradbury Quote: Television

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Universe ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Bob Dylan ~ Times

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
~Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin

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