Today's Words of Wisdom - October 18, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Isabel Briggs Myers (1897 – 1980):

“For many Extroverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.”

and

“Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.” 

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941):

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

and

“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”

Rick Moody (1961 - ):

“Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.”

Charles Stross (1964 - ):

“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.” 

Wynton Marsalis (1961 - ):

“It’s hard to be prejudiced against someone you love.” 

Wendy Wasserstein (1950 – 2006):

“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

and

“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.”

Ntozake Shange (1948 - ):

“Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.”

and

“Through my tears

I found god in myself

and I loved her fiercely”

A.J. Liebling (1904 – 1963):

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

and

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

and

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

and

“The way to write is well, and how is your own business.”

D.T. Suzuki (1870 – 1966):

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”