Two Thoughts (13 - 19 November)

Sunday 13th November

Two thoughts from Matt Haig:

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”

Monday 14th November

Two thoughts from David Eagleman:

“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”

“But our brains are always crushing ambiguity into choices.”

Tuesday 15th November

Two thoughts from Tara Swart:

"Reassessing our own “failures” and rebranding them as “not yets” is a good way to start rewriting our own story: the internal narrative of our past struggles."

“Note to self: we do not have to be slaves to our chronological age!”

Wednesday 16th November

Two thoughts from Nell Irvin Painter:

"What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for."

“image works as particularity, not as generalization. That is how art school changed my thinking about history and how visual art set me free.”

Thursday 17th November

Two thoughts from Corita Kent:

“Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.”

“Consider everything an experiment.”

Friday 18th November

Two thoughts from Greg McKeown:

“We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people’s agendas to control our lives.”

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

Saturday 19th November

Two thoughts from Eiji Yoshikawa:

“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”

“There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.”

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