Kindle Notes & Highlights
Everyone needs a favorite at work. It’s the only way to keep from stabbing someone in the face.
It’s not that I’m prone to violence, but you should never underestimate the power of a dead-end customer service job.
I’ve seen twenties pocketed by teens who just want to save up for a video game. An usher who stole hundreds of dollars from various lost wallets, just to buy his prom date a corsage.
But I just smile. That’s what I do at the theater. A smile is a shield. Thousands of people all day long at work, smiling. No one deserves to see what’s underneath the smile, what’s behind the teeth.
“We’re wasting the most precious natural resource given to us, and it isn’t oil, it isn’t fresh water, it isn’t the trees.” She says, “It’s Time.”
Yes, it’s possible to pay attention to something and ignore it at the same time.
Our own personal torture device: memory.
“It isn’t going to be a meteor from space that ends the world. It isn’t going to be nuclear war. It isn’t going to be disease or tsunamis or the sun.” She said, “It’s going to be mediocrity.”
When you live only your childhood and teenage years with your parents, you grow to hate them for all the wrong reasons, grow to love them for all the wrong reasons.
You hate them because they say no. You love them because they buy you things.
When they die before you’re an adult, they die without you eve...
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Some people you can never win over. Some you don’t want to.
They’re all so lame because they never comfortably solve the issue of the Earth’s position in the universe. How can you time travel when, like, Earth is not only rotating around a sun, but the sun is also moving around the galaxy, and the galaxy around the universe. Earth’s never in the same place in the universe, is it?”
All these lessons about pursuing your dreams, taught by teachers who gave up their own.
When you’re at work, any smile you make can be a lie.
“It’s just that every time we see the problem, we say there’s no time to fix it.”
Customer service has made me an excellent liar.
“Think of it more like, releasing you to the rest of your life.”
