Picasso's mother held great ambitions for him when he was a child. She instructed him: If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope." Instead," Picasso quipped, "I became a painter and became a Picasso."
~ Picasso Quotes
from The Gifted Adult
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“Brian, I can't tell you enough how your notes have encouraged me. In many ways they are exactly what I have needed to here. My husband began listening many months ago but I refused. Although we have taken our kids on a 1 1/2 trip and our currently living and teaching English in China, you'd think I would be a very self-actualized, confident person. However, this is not the case. I daily hike up a local mountain and listen to one of your notes. It has drastically improved my daily life as well as help me focus on where I go from here. What do you do when your living your dreams at 40? Time to refocus.
Thanks for your commitment to this project, and as long as you keep writing I'll keep listening!
Best wishes for you!”
“Brian has a gift for communicating the gist of serious books in a fun, inspiring way. He is so consistently and authentically upbeat that one learns to see value in everything he points to. For those who want a focus on the useful, compelling parts of books in a pithy, engaging style, you can do no better than to read Brian Johnson's PhilosophersNotes.”
"Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew." ~ Dan Millman
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