Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Alex has a wonderful essay up this week on the unexamined life vs the unlived life. I recognized so much of myself in his description of his early college self. And i would say it's only been fairly recently that I've decided to bias myself towards action -- even fidgety ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
In this excerpt from Roald Dahl's Boy, his mother asks if he wants to go to Oxford or Cambridge.
"No, thank you," I said. "I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China."
You must remember that ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
In the following excerpt from Roald Dahl's Boy, he's left public school at 18 to take a job with Shell Oil company. He is taking their internal training courses and is learning the business.
...[E]very morning, six days a week, Saturdays included, I would dress neatly in a sombre grey suit, ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
From the final Hold this Thought broadcast:
"In East of Eden, John Steinbeck writes:
'A child may ask, "What is the world's story about?" And a grown man or woman may wonder, "What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we're at it, what's the story about?"
I believe ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
By then, the veterans had developed an informal set of rules for themselves: Take the craft seriously ([Judi] Dench: "deadly"). Don't take yourself seriously ([Patrick] Stewart: "That's death to creativity"). Never think you know it all (Dench: "Absolutely fatal").
Ian McKellen: The Player - TIME
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