ROBIN WILLIAMS. “Mrs Doubtfire” 1951-2014
YOU’RE ONLY GIVEN A LITTLE SPARK OF MADNESS. YOU MUSN’T LOSE IT.
NO MATTER what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
THERE’S NO SHAME IN FAILING. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
THE HUMAN SPIRIT is more powerful than any drug — and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family.These are the things that matter.
DON’T associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.
SEIZE THE DAY. MAKE YOUR LIFE EXTRAORDINARY.
SOMETIMES it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.
IF YOU’RE DEPRESSED, REACH OUT TO SOMEONE. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.
POLITICS: A latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.
REAL LOSS is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
YOU KNOW WHAT MSIC IS? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
SOMETIMES you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.
EVEN MISTAKES CAN BE WONDERFUL.
WHY DO THEY CALL IT “RUSH HOUR” WHEN NOTHING MOVES?
MARSHALL MCLUHAN. 1911-1980 “The Media is the Message”
ALL MEDIA EXIST to invest our lives with arterial perceptions and arbitrary values.
WE BECOME WHAT WE BEHOLD. WE SHAPE OUR TOOLS AND THEN OUR TOOLS SHAPE US.
WORLD WAR lll is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE for whom ‘thinking’ necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
THERE ARE NO PASSENGERS ON SPACESHIP EARTH. We are all crew.
WE ARE ALL ROBOTS when uncritically involved with our technologies.
A POINT OF VIEW can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
I DON’T necessarily agree with everything I say.
VIOLENCE, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. the less identity, the more violence.
THE MORE THE DATA BANKS RECORD ABOUT EACH ONE OF US, THE LESS WE EXIST.
ONLY THE SMALL SECRETS need to be protected. the large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
THE SUCCESSOR TO POLITICS will be propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1899-1961 “THE SUN ALSO RISES”
AN INTELLIGENT MAN is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
THERE IS NO FRIEND AS LOYAL AS A BOOK.
WHEN PEOPLE TALK, listen completely. most people never listen.
AS YOU GET OLDER it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
I REWROTE the ending to ‘Farewell to Arms,’ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
ALL GOOD BOOKS have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.
MAN IS NOT MADE FOR DEFEAT.
THERE IS NO RULE ON HOW TO WRITE. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
THAT IS WHAT we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
TIME IS THE LEAST THING WE HAVE OF.
I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast — talk them or write them down.
NEVER THINK THAT WAR, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
SEIZE THE DAY!