Andrew T. Garcia > Andrew T.'s Quotes

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Annie Dillard

“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.”
― Annie Dillard

“You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.”
― Brad Warner

“The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.”
― Brad Warner

“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
― Albert Einstein

“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan Watts

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
― Seth Godin

“Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
― Seth Godin

“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
― William Butler Yeats

“2 and 2 are 4.
4 and 4 are 8.

But what would happen
If the last 4 was late?

And how would it be
If one 2 was me?

Or if the first 4 was you
Divided by 2?”
― Langston Hughes

“Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
― Alan Watts

“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone. The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of Fox’s angry common man was another sign that we were living in an upside-down world. The joke was on somebody—and Ailes thought it might be on him.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“What is this ‘white trash’?” asked the model. “They’re people just like me,” said Trump, “only they’re poor.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Finally, it was the right-wing diva and Trump supporter Ann Coulter who took the president-elect aside and said, “Nobody is apparently telling you this. But you can’t. You just can’t hire your children.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“There would be, in other words, one chief of staff in name—the unimportant one—and various others, more important, in practice, ensuring both chaos and Trump’s own undisputed independence. Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and almost everybody’s model for managing the West Wing, advised Priebus not to take the job.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, “Nobody will forget this speech.” George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“In Bannon’s view: (1) Trump was never going to change; (2) trying to get him to change would surely cramp his style; (3) it didn’t matter to Trump supporters; (4) the media wasn’t going to like him anyway; (5) it was better to play against the media than to the media; (6) the media’s claim to be the protector of factual probity and accuracy was itself a sham; (7) the Trump revolution was an attack on conventional assumptions and expertise, so better to embrace Trump’s behavior than try to curb it or cure it.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“(Many of Trump’s positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began to suggest to people that he, like Ailes had been at Fox, was the true force behind his chosen candidate.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“The Breitbart formula was to so appall the liberals that the base was doubly satisfied, generating clicks in a ricochet of disgust and delight. You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Bannon, Kushner, Conway, and the president’s daughter actually had no specific responsibilities—they could make it up as they went along. They did what they wanted.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Jared and Ivanka had made an earnest deal between themselves: if sometime in the future the time came, she’d be the one to run for president (or the first one of them to take the shot).”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“In business meetings, observers would be nonplussed that Charlie and Jared Kushner invariably greeted each other with a kiss and that the adult Jared called his father Daddy.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House