Ben Powell

Public Interest Lawyer. Amateur Astronomer. Aspiring Polymath. Views my own.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."

~ Ernest Hemingway

[philosophy for life @philosophy_life]

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

I just want to tweet out this C. S. Lewis quote every weekend

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Kazuo Ishiguro, damn

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over.”

— Jeff Bezos

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

C.S. Lewis, how did you understand human nature so well?

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Such a cool and complex photo to set up. The sunlight in our eyes was impossibly bright as we waited for Sergei Avdeev to take a series of photos from his bedroom window on space station Mir. Then we retrieved the film from him and returned it to Earth. Glad this one turned out so well - an amazing, cooperative moment in time and space.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found." — Kurt Vonnegut

[philosophy for life @philosophy_life]

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

― Confucius

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Decide who you want to be, and then do that work.

[LEO @Leo_Tweets]

It’s our time now 😈🦁

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

Bugdom (1999)

[Ben Powell @BenJammin725]

make it make sense

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Chief Justice John Roberts at his confirmation hearing: “No one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law.” (Sept. 2005)

[Christopher Voss @fbinegotiator]

My book, Never Split The Difference, has over 40,000 reviews on Amazon.

If you’ve read my book, retweet this.

I want to see something….

[Ben Powell @BenJammin725]

@Rjinswand @kunwara_ladkaa @notgwendalupe I'm pretty sure they're talking about how strange things have been happening in the area...

[John Backus @backus]

POV: Taking off your VR headset and AirPods because the flight attendant asked you if you want a drink