Instead - Quotes
Whenever you’re looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion - and whenever you’re looking at a problem, you’re feeling negative emotion, which, as you know, never gets us anywhere. But once you take the focus off yourself and your wants, and instead turn it toward how getting what you want might also benefit someone else, well then, you can’t help but succeed.
Some philosophers can`t bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don`t go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.
You think this is a tragedy. Regard it
As comedy instead: it will amuse you.
That`s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they`re pretty. It`s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. The dead don't care about pretty flowers and carved marble statues.
Suppose the world were only one of God`s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?