May232013

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

His fascination with the whirl of war
And feats of fearless masculine ‘esprit’
As those of hunter, boxer, matador
Or marlin fisher on the open sea

Presents a picture of a macho man
Who battled fear of weakness deep within
And so before Pamplona’s bulls he ran
And boasted of how well he handled gin.

He worked and worked his sparsely written prose
To give it potent punch and poignancy
To get that natural grace that was supposed
To be his generation’s currency.

But festival, fiesta, or a feast
Would need much more than Hemingway as priest.

—-J.W. McPherson

literature poetry classics Hemingway sonnet author 

May172013
“Take the first step and then let providence guide you.” Gib Bulloch on making a career change & developing professionally

GBCH13 advice career 

May122013
“Tell them the truth that they don’t want to tell each other.” - AIDS activist, author and artist Mary Fisher @maryfisherart on telling your story.

“Tell them the truth that they don’t want to tell each other.” - AIDS activist, author and artist Mary Fisher @maryfisherart on telling your story.

AIDS philanthropy author activist 

May82013
“Every time you cut off somebody elses opportunities you shrink your own horizons.” - Bill Clinton to Steven Colbert at CGIU in April 2013

“Every time you cut off somebody elses opportunities you shrink your own horizons.” - Bill Clinton to Steven Colbert at CGIU in April 2013

Clinton presidents inspiration philanthropy CGI Colbert 

May72013
“Dolce far niente” (translation: The sweetness of doing nothing) Image: John Singer Sargent watercolor

“Dolce far niente” (translation: The sweetness of doing nothing)

Image: John Singer Sargent watercolor

art painting italian watercolor 

4PM
“Impatience is the official language of youth.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 

basketball esquire advice 

April242013
“He began to branch out, photographing those he met through his complex social life, the infamous and the famous, from Marianna Faithfull to a young tattooed hustler. But he always returned to his muse. I no longer felt that I was the right model for him, but he would wave my objections away. He saw in me more than I could see in myself. Whenever he peeled the image from the Polaroid negative, he would say, “With you I can’t miss.” - Patti Smith on Robert Mapplethorpe in “Just Kids”, p. 193

“He began to branch out, photographing those he met through his complex social life, the infamous and the famous, from Marianna Faithfull to a young tattooed hustler. But he always returned to his muse. I no longer felt that I was the right model for him, but he would wave my objections away. He saw in me more than I could see in myself. Whenever he peeled the image from the Polaroid negative, he would say, “With you I can’t miss.” - Patti Smith on Robert Mapplethorpe in “Just Kids”, p. 193

rock music patti smith books biographies 

April112013
“Make your mess your message.” - Robin Roberts, cancer and MDS survivor, at DVF Awards last week

“Make your mess your message.” - Robin Roberts, cancer and MDS survivor, at DVF Awards last week
March302013
“‘The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.’” William James as read in New York Times Magazine article “Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead”

(Source: The New York Times)

New York Times psychology careers 

March242013
“All of these woes shall serve for sweet discourses in our time to come.” Romeo and Juliet (Act III, Scene V) by William Shakespeare.

plays theater Shakespeare 

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