Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.
The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.
Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.
There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.
You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.
It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It's a shame, really.