“I learned to believe in myself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who can you expect to believe in you?” Ever since the first time I heard Chester Bennington screaming about being one step closer to the edge, I was hooked on Linkin Park. Their electric energy is positively contagious and one of the best […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one.” It’s a philosophical and religious question that has plagued thinkers for centuries. Are people inherently good and life experience slowly corrupts them? Or are people born evil and they have to fight this natural inclination in order to be good? Regardless […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Nishan Panwar on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned the great lessons of those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you? or who treated you with contempt, or disputed the passage with you?” In the Canadian public school system, […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” While we all may have different definitions for exactly what it means, we all want to be happy. No one wants to be sad, upset, angry or grumpy. The problem is that far too many of us suffer from the “I’ll be happy […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Roy M. Goodman (1930-2014) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep…that have taken hold.” Those words were uttered by Bilbo Baggins in the […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” Relative to a number of “hard” sciences, psychology as a social science is still in its relative infancy. Sure, philosophers may have pondered about the inner workings of the mind for centuries, but it is really only […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Carl Jung (1875-1961) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.” I suppose it’s not terribly surprising that I am oftentimes drawn to quotes by writers about writing, given that I make my living […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: John Steinbeck (1902-1968) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“And the old adage that with age comes wisdom is not true. With age comes the veneer of respectability and a veneer of uncomfortable truths.” We all like to think that we get a little bit wiser with each passing day. We like to think that we learn from experience, gaining those extra touches of […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Colin Grant on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” Today is my birthday and I am now firmly ensconced in my 30s. I’m not really sure how I feel about that, as it seems like I’m too old to be “young” and too young to be considered “old.” I suppose it’s all a matter of […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Happy Birthday Edition on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Seneca the Younger on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Once kids stopped working, the economics of parenting changed. Kids became, in the words of one brilliant if totally ruthless sociologist, “economically worthless but emotionally priceless.” Rather than them working for us, we began to work for them, because within only a matter of decades it became clear: if we wanted our kids to succeed, […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Jennifer Senior on Modern Parenting on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.” I would like to start up my own […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Dr. Frank Crane (1861-1928) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“If I’ve learned one thing in the 14 years I’ve been a full-time cartoonist, it’s that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Scott Kurtz (PvP Comic) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“But in the pages of Marvel comic books, [Stan] Lee behaved from the start as if a vast, passionate readership awaited each issue that he and his key collaborators, Kirby and Steve Ditko, churned out. And in a fairly short period of time, this chutzpah–as in all those accounts of magical chutzpah so beloved by […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Sarah Connor (Terminator 2) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Food. Food. You have to step back and ask: How and why did we all get so hepped up about food? When I flash back to my childhood cuisine–and I mean flash, just grabbing the first image of food my memory will serve–I get a Safeway bag of frozen mixed vegetables. Diced carrots with peas […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Timothy Taylor on Foodie Culture on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Sometimes you got to go back to actually move forward, and I don’t mean going back to reminisce, or chase ghosts, I mean going back to see where you came from, where you’ve been, how you got here and see where you’re going. I know there are those that say you can’t go back. Yes, […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Matthew McConaughey on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“I’m proud to say that I’ve never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.” Am I the only one who thinks that this whole hullabaloo over The Interview and North Korea was just one big elaborate PR stunt […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Seth Rogen on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” Just as we’ve been told many times before that we should dare to dream the impossible dream, we have also been told just how impossible those dreams really are, oftentimes by ourselves. As we get started with a new year filled with new opportunities […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” Consider a standard 40-hour work week. Not accounting for the prep work […]
~~ Continue reading Sunday Snippet: Johnny Carson (1925-2005) on Beyond the Rhetoric.
