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.
Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.
The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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