John Marsden

My rosary has broken and my beads have all slipped through, but I *still* have string!

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

“Your future is shaped by the habits you repeat, not the goals you set.”
(Paraphrasing James Clear)

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Show me the incentive. I'll show you the outcome.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

If you want to build a ship, do not just give people the wood and the tools. Instead, teach them to yearn for the past and the vast and endless sea.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Alex Tabarrok has put it, “A bet is a tax on bullshit”.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Science advances one funeral at a time.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

A hint of sour deepens flavours.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Sharing of tasks inevitably leads the shirking of tasks.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Disposition is more important than position.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

You could be anything you want to be, but you can't be everything you want to be.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

He went on expounding to me his theories, according to which the author of every book is a fictitious character whom the existent author invents to make him the author of his fictions.
- If on a Winters Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

I used to think the brain was the most wonderful organ in the body. Then I realized who was telling me that.
- Emo Phillips

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

There's nothing worse than something coming up that your past self commitment your future self to.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening everything must be said again.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

You can't make a mistake if you don't have a choice.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

You're only ever known for one thing in your life.

[Naval @naval]

To find the truth in something, remove your self from it.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

William H. Gass: "Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated."

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

Things aren't what they are. Things are what we think they are.

[John Marsden @marsden_john]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 This is the map of the grotto which is on the wall just before you ascend.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 I was there last weekend. My favourite exhibit is a book they have open in the vestibule area before the caves which gives "plebian" Margate a good slagging off in true Victorian prose...