- "When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!" (Al McGuire)
- "Neglect the flesh to pursue the bone." (Emily Haines)
- "Number one, you can't panic. You can't have a bad week and start throwing things. Your character has to be the same whether you are winning or losing. If it's not, then you care about the winning and losing more than you do about the people." (Joe Girardi)
- "Preparation is everything. You need to rehearse so you're confident in the set, you know the songs very, very well and what's going to happen very, very well. It has to be flawless… On stage you almost have to convince yourself this is the last time. You perform as if you've never played it before and you're never going to play it again." (Annie Lennox)
nov 5 2011 ∞
nov 5 2011 +
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” (Albert Einstein)
- "I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me." (Elizabeth Taylor)
- "And that's the irony, isn't it? We waste time everywhere. We deny relationships, we pass up opportunities, we spend more energy thinking of reasons not to do something than it would take to just accept the chance and go for it. We get so busy forgetting we WILL die, that we forget to really live."
- "isn’t it strange how attractive people are really just a nice-looking arrangement of atoms? like damn you have a great deoxyribonucleic acid arrangement"
- "If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." (David Sedaris - Barrel Fever: Stories an...
apr 17 2012 ∞
apr 17 2012 +
Main sources of inspiration:
Other interesting sources:
apr 20 2012 ∞
apr 20 2012 +
- good ol' lecithin
- ginko biloba tea (other useful herbs here)
- music
- enough sleep and some exercise
- switch your breathing to your lower abdomen (start breathing deeply from your stomach - apparently, this way you activate the Theta waves and you should be more receptive to concentrating on new information)
- playing games
oct 22 2011 ∞
apr 18 2012 +
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On how to get the most out of studying:
- There are no studies to support the theory of "learning styles". What is more important is that, to be successful, you need to constantly addapt and use multiple learning styles and methods.
- Also, there is no such thing as multi-tasking, not when you are trying to get the most out of studying. Minimizing distractions is the way to go.
- Choose to focus on deep, appropiate processing of critical concepts and practicing retrieval and application.
- Deep learning strategies focus on meaning, comprehension and visual imagery.
Principles for achieving deep processing:
- Elaboration: How does this concept relate to other concepts?
- Distinctivness: How is this concept diffe...
aug 27 2012 ∞
jan 27 2013 +
January
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
- The First Man by Albert Camus
February
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
March
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
April
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
jan 14 2013 ∞
sep 11 2013 +
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
- Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zeppelin
- It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door by UnderOath
- Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
- William Tell by Schiller
aug 13 2012 ∞
aug 13 2012 +
- Time is very short. It seems very long if you fuck it around and very short is you’re using it wisely. If you spend time like a dumb-ass, you’ll say ‘It feels like yesterday (that was 5 years ago)…’. If you’re get busy and start being productive, at the end of every week you look back at Monday and say ‘What the fuck, I thought that was last month…’. See the difference here?
- Nervous? In 5 billion years the sun will burn out and nothing you did will matter. Feel better?
- Put the rake down. I don't wanna sit around watching you 'give it your best.' Either stop sucking or get the fuck out of the way.
- "Fuck you adenosine!" screamed caffeine and occupied my A1 and A2a receptors, and all kinds of actions potential started firing, neurotransmiters flooding the sy...
aug 13 2012 ∞
aug 13 2012 +
 Fiction:
- Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk *****
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin *****
- The Bro Code by Barney Stinson & Matt Kuhn ***
- The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins *****
- Catching Fire by Suzzane Collins *****
- Mockingjay by Suzzane Collins ****
- The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald ****
- A Clash Of Kings by George R.R. Martin *****
- Ciuleandra by Liviu Rebreanu *****
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Women by Charles Bukowski *****
- Damned by Chuck Palahniuk ***
- The Fault In Our Stars by John Green ***
- More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel ***
jan 9 2012 ∞
jan 14 2013 +
 Main sources:
Other:
apr 20 2012 ∞
apr 20 2012 +
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Conformity is not a necessary element when it comes to maturity. Don’t say yes to a job offer just because you need extra money on your side. Don’t let your busy school/job schedule get in the way of exploring your environment. Forget about those nonsensical health and beauty tips you read about. Learn to love yourself, and find out what works out for your body and what doesn’t. Set your goals high, not just because you feel the pressure of having to do better than your peers. Set them high because you know what you want, and you also know how to get what you want. Challenge yourself. Forget what “they say” and stay true to untainted morals. Your life should not be interrupted by those around you, and is not meant to be a mundane set of conventional achievements that coincides directly with your parents and peers.
Go far against the grain and travel light...
oct 28 2012 ∞
feb 22 2013 +
"One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there is so much in the world to read, so much to learn, if you once got seriously started, how could you stop?" (Joyce Carol Oates)
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." (General James N. Mattis)
“Let me remember that my courage is a wild dog and it won’t just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.” (Ze Frank, An Invocation for Beginnings)
jun 8 2012 ∞
aug 13 2012 +
- Count all your time as time to be used and make every attempt to get satisfaction out of every moment.
- Find something to enjoy in whatever you do.
- Find ways to build on your successes.
- Stop regretting your failures and start learning from your mistakes.
- Remind yourself, "There is always enough time for the important things." If it is important, you should be able to make time to do it.
- Continually look at ways of freeing up your time.
- Examine your old habits and search for ways to change or eliminate them.
- Try to use waiting time - review notes or do practice problems.
- Keep paper or a calendar with you to jot down the things you have to do or notes to yourself.
jan 9 2012 ∞
apr 28 2013 +
- most important
- e-reader;
- wristwatch;
- books;
- best present for her 18th birthday.
- not so important, but still
- leather bag;
- black shoes;
- white silk shirt;
- black dress.
dec 3 2011 ∞
jan 27 2013 +
 useful links
interesting tops
other
oct 22 2011 ∞
oct 23 2011 +
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