#met

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big. ↗

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. ↗

#controversy #metaphor #racism #rap #censorship

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.... If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. ↗

— John Locke

#epistemology #metacognition #art

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#came #fast #i #i came #learn

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#anybody #before #career #cares #credibility

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#generally #good #i #like #look

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change. ↗

— John Zorn

#change #hard #hard time #people #sometimes

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#another #attain #believe #must #need

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#big #big city #city #cross-section #like

You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you. ↗