Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Neil Perry character
Context: Modified passage from the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Full citation:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."
“If you want to organise your psyche you could start by cleaning up your room.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“Listen with ears of tolerance!
See through the eyes of compassion!
Speak with the language of love.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“Raise your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”
Song The Brightside, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1
Quoted in "Connected by a Thread: Arts Territory Exchange Residency in Sustainable Practice" by Gudrun Filipska, CSPA Quarterly periodical (January 25, 2019) http://www.sustainablepractice.org/2019/01/25/connected-by-a-thread/.
“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”
“If you're a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones, you take the tough ones too.”
Source: Band of Brothers, episode Crossroads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggdVyan4XI