Majicman Notes

I can’t tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don’t matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have… Read more

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. Ernest Hemingway Read more

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former.… Read more

“You are a unique moment in the history of creation,” Vartan Gregorian told incoming freshman classes every year of his Brown presidency. “You have to decide what you want to do with your uniqueness. You… Read more

The Lindy Effect essentially states that the longer a non-perishable item has been around, the longer it’s likely to persist into the future.  The Lindy Effect was named after a New York deli and originally referenced the career… Read more

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. Dorothee Sölle on letting go Read more

On the first day’s drive to the set, he confided, “Whenever I start a film, I hear the child’s voice in my head singing, ‘We’re makin’ a movie, we’re makin’ a movie!’” I was already… Read more

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not… Read more

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/benjamin-disraeli-the-earl-of-beaconsfield Read more

“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.” Constantin Brancusi https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/constantin-brancusi-800 Read more