#makin

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. ↗

— Deborah J. Lightfoot

#critical-thinking #decision-making #rational-thought #anger

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. ↗

— Jason Patric

#billion #box #box office #cruise #dollars

RVM Thoughts for Today "Some live Life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the Book and get stuck by the Hook. Break free today , let conscience guide your way. ↗

— Rvm

#making-life-fulfilling #inspirational

I can't stand making records. ↗

— Eric Church

#making #records #stand

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. ↗

— Norman Angell

#everywhere #evidence #go #human #i

He shrugged, working to make her understand. “There’s whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don’t take credit for it. My mom’s been paying a trainer for years. Oh, and my six-pack won a Fan’s Choice Award called the SixPackAttack. Three years running. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#unmaking-hunter-kennedy #music

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together. ↗

— Darlene Craviotto

#screenwriting #writing #writing-life #writing-process #life

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments since seemed to obey, and promised to continue obeying, their own set of stochastic, undisclosed, and undiscoverable laws. Where I was fully aware of the pitfalls and folly of a finely-tuned narcissism but still the known universe seemed to bend and bend inexorably inward and towards me where it awaited my next move, supremely ready to react accordingly. And how I knew that decisions I would soon make or defer would have near-Sophoclean import and yet nonetheless it all seemed oddly irrelevant. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#future #life #past #retrospective #uncertainly

The thought that human beings are considering saving lives by killing millions of their fellow human beings is so preposterous that the words 'saving life' have lost all of their meaning. One of the most tragic facts of our century is that this 'No' to nuclear weapons has been spoken so seldom, so softly, and by so few. ↗

— Henri J. M. Houwen

#peacemaking #life

Life is like a river - it keeps flowing, flowing and flowing till it merges into the Sea. nothing can stop the flow of Life , but you can Enjoy the Journey... ↗

— Rvm

#life