I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Thoreau, WaldenThe scenes of our life resemble pictures in rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance to seem beautiful. That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely that in expectation of which they lived. - Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
If you read ol' Schop with a sense of humor there is so much there worth thinking about. A lot of people are turned off by the negative tone, but I've always thought of him as a great counter ballast to the positivism that runs through everyone else's thoughts. And, he's really funny. He's pretty terrible about women, though.
— Osbert Sitwell, Tales My Father Taught Me (1963)My father took what can only be described as a mystical view of double-entry book-keeping, as if some unexpected and particular virtue resided in it like a djinn in a bottle. The world was divided for him into two classes, the one consisting of those who were at home in this esoteric language of mathematics and the other of those who were not. It constituted a test in his mind. A man's character would be finally summarized and dismissed with the words: 'He doesn't understand Double Entry.'
~ Dangerous Dungeons Something kinda zen or Confucian about that.No need to rush, just wait in a corner
Search deep down underneath
Long fall down is a long climb up
- Cormac McCarthy, The CrossingHe took up her stiff head out of the leaves and held it or he reached to hold what cannot be held, what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of a great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh. What blood and bone are made of but can themselves not make on any altar nor by any wound of war. What we may well believe has power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world surely if wind can, if rain can. But which can not be held never be held and is no flower but is swift and a huntress and the wind itself is in terror of it and the world can not lose it.
- Bill McKibben, eaarth 1. If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion
continue unchanged, the limits of growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years.
2. It is possible to alter these growth trends and to establish a condition of ecological and economic stability that is
sustainable far into the future. The state of global equilibrium could be designed so that the basic material needs of
each person on earth are satisfied and each person has an equal opportunity to realize his or her individual human
potential.
3. If the world's people decide to strive for this second outcome rather than the first, the sooner they begin working
to attain it, the greater will be their chances of success.
..."for the first thirty years of the model, the world has been tracking along the unsustainable trajectory of the book's business-as-usual scenario." The curves, he said, matched the standard model, the one that ended in economic collapse sometime before midcenture.
https://www.blender.org/manual/getting_started/about_blender/introduction.html3D content creation software such as Blender have the added technical complexity and jargon associated with the underlying technologies. Terms like UV maps, materials, shaders, meshes, and subsurf are the mediums of the digital artist, and understanding them, even broadly, will help you to use Blender to its best.
There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. “It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror? “The touch of another person’s hands. “Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else’s hand can ease pain and make things better. “That’s power. That’s power so fundamental that most people never even realize it exists.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game
Walker Percy, The MoviegoerLosing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.