music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
Interpretation
Engaging in creative activities and physical exercise can help alleviate boredom.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of engaging in various artistic and intellectual pursuits, such as music, drawing, reading, and invention, along with physical activities like exercise, as valuable tools to combat feelings of boredom and ennui. He suggests that these resources can enrich one's life and stimulate the mind, thereby keeping monotony at bay.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming boredom with creativity, one might say, 'As Thomas Jefferson once said, music, drawing, books, invention, and exercise can be great resources against ennui.'
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.
'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.
When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldnβt do the other. Iβm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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