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“Sometimes it takes an entire generation to see the life lost between freeway off-ramps.”
― Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
― Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“Yeah, it took me by surprise as well. I was too busy worrying about global warming.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“It was the birthday the boy had chosen for himself, and the sky, as the old man had promised, was clear. They ate breakfast in the twilight of their cellar. The cart the old man had made late at night sat on the table. The boy ate with one hand, his other hand resting on the cart. Occasionally, he paused in eating to move the cart back and forth a few inches, and to imitate the sound of a motor.
"That's a nice truck you've got there, Mister" said the old man. "Bringing animals to the market, are you?
"Brummmaaaa, brummmaaaa. Out of my way! Brummmaaaa. Out of the way of my tank."
"Sorry," sighed the old man, "thought you were a truck. You like it anyway, and that's what counts.”
―
"That's a nice truck you've got there, Mister" said the old man. "Bringing animals to the market, are you?
"Brummmaaaa, brummmaaaa. Out of my way! Brummmaaaa. Out of the way of my tank."
"Sorry," sighed the old man, "thought you were a truck. You like it anyway, and that's what counts.”
―
“Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Humans do not perceive the value of thing in absolute terms. We never have. Just as our eyes process the color and luminosity of an object relative to its surroundings, the brain constantly adjusts its idea of what we need in order to be happy. It compares what we have now to what we had yesterday and what we might possibly get next. It compares what we have to what everyone else has. Then it recalibrates the distance to a revised finish line. But the finish line moves even when other conditions stay the same, simply because we get used to things. So happiness, in these economists' particular formulation, is inherently remote. It never stands still.”
― Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
― Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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