January 2012
27 posts
“The complications of the modern world all rest on one relationship. The lender...”
WatchWashington and Wall Street.
“And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a...”
– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
“Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking...”
– Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
Great article on Tim Tebow →
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel...”
– Jerry West
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
– Bruce Feirstein
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via myquotelibrary)
Drake's Diary: Sixteen Stylish Maxims for the New... →
drakes-london:
Style and taste are a particular sort of intelligence, and vice versa.
Aesthetic judgments rarely transcend the culture of the judge.
The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Which is why Fashion is shallow, but taste is deep.
There’s no right or wrong about style. Like a poem, it...
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also...”
– Charles Dickens (via myquotelibrary)
“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
– Shmuley Boteach (via myquotelibrary)
December 2011
47 posts
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Best Tumblrs of 2011 →
“That’s what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”
– Jodi Picoult (Handle With Care)
“Forgive me for my Oscar Wilde moment last night - feeling more like Wordsworth...”
“The great irony and tragedy of “intro econ” is that it is at its introductory...”
– The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS)
Perhaps the most interesting bit,
To casually label economics a science is at best aspirational, at worst manipulative, at a minimum misleading. At the introductory...
“Greene’s “dual-process theory” of moral decision-making posits that rationality...”
– The Biology of Right and Wrong (via theatlantic)
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of...”
– Bill Cosby (via myquotelibrary)
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
– Jewish Proverb (via thelittlephilosopher)
