Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.
Nick OffermanRead
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.
Interpretation
Valuing real-life experiences over excessive screen time.
Nick Offerman expresses a concern about how much time people spend looking at screens, suggesting that life offers much more richness and enjoyment beyond the digital realm. He emphasizes the importance of engaging with the world directly rather than being consumed by technology.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about the negative impacts of social media at a workshop.
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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