I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
I’m afraid that many of my peers are afraid to move from the comfort zones that were graciously created for them by years of coddling from both their parents and educational institutions. They did everything people told them to do and expected that things would work out alright. They had no reason to think that what they were being told would be inapplicable by the time their undergraduate studies were completed.
It seems that no one taught my struggling peers that the key to success later on would be to keep their vibrant idealism locked in a jar for safety while strategizing ways to make themselves competitive in a world that’s largely apathetic to their existence. The same world that would gladly tell them it’s a good idea to study liberal arts and accrue six figures of debt. The same world that says “do what you love and the money will come” while smiling in devilish glee at the idea of collecting money from them for the next 30 years.
O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
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John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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John Keats
I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
naveen:
omgicu:
timgavrich:
“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” —T.S. Eliot
Sums up everything up quite nicely in my opinion.
I love every single day — but that doesn’t mean they don’t get a little rough sometimes. And the word “fun” doesn’t really apply. Producers always say “Come on, do this movie! It’ll be fun — you’ll have a great time!” … It’s not fun. It’s passionate. It’s serious. It’s infuriating when you find your own limitations, knocking your head against the wall — which I did a lot on this one. I mean, “Inception” wasn’t easy. There was nothing casual about it. [Laughs].
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Hans Zimmer on his job as a composer.
[Thank you for being honest and not sugar-coating it. Thanks for being real and saying you love it, but that it can be infuriatingly difficult at times that it makes you want to tear you hair out every now and then. Seriously.]
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