“Everything that happens to us only happens to us.”
3 Jun 2026 at 8:08 pm
They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir
Bruce Eric Kaplan
“I found that sort of admirable. I like bold statements. I think we need more people taking things to the next level, even if it’s the next level of depression.”
2 Jun 2026 at 8:22 pm
They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir
Bruce Eric Kaplan
“First and foremost, we must understand the fundamental task of any leader—to provide a far-reaching vision, to see the global picture, to work for the greater good of the group and maintain its unity. That is what people crave in their leaders. We have to avoid ever seeming petty, self-serving, or indecisive. Showing signs of that will stir up the ambivalence. Focusing on the future and the larger picture should consume much of our thinking. Based on this vision, we must set practical goals and guide the group toward them. We need to become masters of this visionary process through practice and experience. Attaining such mastery will give us tremendous confidence in ourselves, as opposed to the fake confidence of those who are merely grandiose.”
25 May 2026 at 8:37 pm
The Laws of Human Nature
Greene, Robert
“conscious control. Often our discontent is merely chronic; our desire for change is vague and a reflection of our boredom. This leads to a waste of precious time”
19 Apr 2026 at 8:17 pm
The Laws of Human Nature
Greene, Robert
“You don’t take notice of the patterns in your life; you don’t accept the idea that your earliest years left a deep and lasting imprint that compels you to behave in certain ways.”
18 Apr 2026 at 8:41 pm
The Laws of Human Nature
Greene, Robert
“Beware of first- hand ideas!" exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. "First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by live and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation.”
17 Apr 2026 at 8:46 pm
The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
“You do not make phone calls or communicate while feeling some sudden emotion, particularly resentment. If you find yourself rushing to commit to people, to hire or be hired by them, step back and give it a day. Cool the emotions down. The longer you can take the better, because perspective comes with time.”
18 Mar 2026 at 9:04 pm
The Laws of Human Nature
Greene, Robert
“This is very important to consider in written or personal salesmanship. The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific. Say that a tungsten lamp gives more light than a carbon and you leave some doubt. Say it gives three and one-third times the light and people realize that you have made tests and comparisons.”
25 Feb 2026 at 9:58 pm
Scientific Advertising
Claude C. Hopkins
“Always bear these facts in mind. People are hurried. The average person worth cultivating has too much to read. They skip three-fourths of the reading matter which they pay to get. They are not going to read your business talk unless you make it worth their while and let the headline show it.”
25 Feb 2026 at 9:43 pm
Scientific Advertising
Claude C. Hopkins
“wolf that wins is the one that you feed, and when it comes to the quality of your life, you need to be extremely careful of what you allow yourself to think”
24 Feb 2026 at 8:46 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“We are so deeply enmeshed in the mental state of “wanting,” we cannot shift to a state of “having.””
19 Feb 2026 at 9:33 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“Intuitive thoughts help you in the present. They give you information that you need to make a better-informed decision. Intruding thoughts are often random and have nothing to do with what’s going on in the moment.”
19 Feb 2026 at 8:58 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“It is essential that you learn to take action before you feel like doing it. Taking action builds momentum and creates motivation. These feelings will not come to you spontaneously; you have to generate them.”
8 Feb 2026 at 9:19 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“There is no fire like lust. There is no grip like hate. There is no net like delusion. There is no river like craving.”
13 Jan 2026 at 9:07 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“Fools, men of little intelligence, give themselves over to negligence, but the wise man protects his diligence as a supreme treasure.”
13 Jan 2026 at 8:52 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“‘There are six perils in idleness: A man says, it is too cold, and does no work. He says, it is too hot, and does no work; he says, it is too early . . . too late, and does no work. He says, I am too hungry, and does no work. . . too full, and does no work. And while all that he should do remains undone, he makes no money, and such wealth as he has dwindles away.”
13 Jan 2026 at 8:48 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“‘There are, young householder, these six dangers of drink: the actual loss of wealth; increase of quarrels; susceptibility to disease; an evil reputation; indecent exposure; ruining one’s intelligence.”
13 Jan 2026 at 8:47 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“Your headline should promise a benefit, or deliver news, or offer a service, or tell a significant story, or recognize a problem, or quote a satisfied customer.”
16 Dec 2025 at 8:10 pm
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
“the key to improving productivity and performance might be to occasionally do nothing at all. Or, at least, not dive into a screen. It prompts us to think distinctly, in a way that delivers more original ideas.”
4 Nov 2025 at 9:35 pm
The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter
“ ‘It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.’ No, you should rather say: ‘It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.’ Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain.”
30 Oct 2025 at 7:06 am
Meditations (tr.Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Aurelius
“Men seek retreats for themselves – in the country, by the sea, in the hills – and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time you want, to retreat into yourself. No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind, especially if he can dip into thoughts there which put him at immediate and complete ease: and by ease I simply mean a well-ordered life. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself. The doctrines you will visit there should be few and fundamental, sufficient at one meeting to wash away all your pain and send you back free of resentment at what you must rejoin.”
9 Jul 2025 at 8:14 pm
Meditations (tr.Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Aurelius
“Will children born today experience as much change as children born a century ago”
27 May 2025 at 7:35 pm
Boom
Byrne Hobart
Tobias Huber
“This is justice, this is the law of the cosmos,” she wrote to employees. “If you rely on unfair means to seek illegal gains, you will eventually vomit back up what you ate—indeed, more than you ate.”
26 May 2025 at 8:25 pm
House of Huawei
Eva Dou
“Burnett had always been an aggressive salesman; in Dianne Burnett’s memoir, she describes her ex-husband upselling a client at Face so hard that the man had a seizure.”
18 May 2025 at 8:30 pm
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum