Our investment-strategy was simple. People hate to think about bad things happening so they always underestimate their likelihood.
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「そもそもデザインとは歴史的に、産業に寄与し、大衆の快楽的消費を促し、理想をたどれば、使い方を認知しやすく、また生活がよりよくなる、という目的があったのだが、それはどうも脇に追いやられているようだ。デザインウイルスはすでに日常生活の環境を蝕んでいる。ビジネスのためには人目を引かなくてはいけないというニーズがこの病の完璧な保菌者を育てているのだ」 著書『ジャスパー・モリソンのデザイン』のなかで、近年のデザインの潮流を痛烈に批判したモリソン。目立った形や色を駆使することは真のデザインではない。時間をかけて生活に馴染むよう成長し、「普通」となったものにこそ人々を満足させるデザインが宿っているとモリソンは説いている。
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Every Grain Of Sand / どの砂の粒にも
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
告白の時に深い欠乏の時間に
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
私の足元の涙の水たまりが
生まれたばかりの種を押し流すその時に
There’s a dyin’ voice within me reaching out somewhere
私の中の死にゆく声が
どこかへ手を伸ばす
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair
危険の中を身を粉にして歩く
絶望の教訓の中で
Don’t have the inclination to look back on any mistake
どんな失敗も振り返るなと
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
カインのように
私はわかっている
この事の鎖を断ち切らねばならないと
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand
一時の怒りの中で
主の手が私には見える
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand
ざわめく葉の中にも
どの砂の粒にも
Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
ああ、享楽の花たちと
昨年の雑草たち
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
まるで犯罪者のように
愛嬌も良心の息も絞殺されてしまい
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
太陽は道を照らす時間の階段を打ち落し
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay
怠惰の苦痛と腐敗の記憶を和らげる
I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame
私は誘惑の憤りの炎の出入り口を眺める
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
そしていつもその道を通るたびに
自分の名を呼ぶ声が聞こえる
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
旅の先で
私は理解するに至るだろう
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand
どの髪の毛ひとつにも番号がつけられていることを
どの砂の粒のように
I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
私はみすぼらしい者から富めるものとなる
夜の悲哀の中で
In the violence of a summer’s dream, in the chill of a wintry light
ある夏の夢の猛威の中で
冬の光の寒気の中で
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
余白へ消えてゆく
ひとりぼっちの苦いダンスの中で
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face
割れた無垢の鏡の中に
互いに忘れられた顔が
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
私は古代の足音を聞いた
まるで海のうねりのような
Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me
ときどき振り返ると
そこには誰かがいて
またある時は私だけ
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
人間の現実性というバランスの中に
私はぶら下がっているんだ
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand
落下する全てのすずめたちみたいに
あらゆる砂の粒のように
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Kayla, when your mom left, I was really scared. Like really, really scared. Because now I was all alone with this little girl that I loved so much and wanted everything for and I wasn't sure if I could give you what you needed so I was really scared. I was scared that you weren't going to be okay. I was scared just like you are right now. More scared. Way more... But then you got older. And you took your first steps, and you said your first words, and you wrote your first letter to Nana and you made your first friend; and everything that I thought I was going to have to teach you - how to be nice, how to share, how to care about other people's feelings - you just started doing on your own. Your teachers would say, "you've got such a lovely daughter, you've done such a great job with her." But I didn't do anything. I really didn't. I just watched. And the more I watched you, the less scared I got. I stopped being scared a long time ago, Kayla. You know why? Because of you. You made me brave, Kayla. And if you could just see yourself like I see you... the way you really are, the way you always have been... I promise you wouldn't be scared either.
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The Killer: Stick to your plan. Anticipate, don't improvise. Trust no one. Never yield an advantage. Fight only the battle you're paid to fight.
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The Killer: My process is purely logistical, narrowly focused by design. I'm not here to take sides. It's not my place to formulate any opinion. No one who can afford me, needs to waste time winning me to some cause. I serve no god, or country. I fly no flag. If I'm effective, it's because of one simple fact: I. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.
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Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.
Lesra: The man's innocent. And he's been in jail fifteen or sixteen years. It's not right.
Terry Swinton: I know that's what his book says.
Sam Chaiton: Two juries found him guilty, Les.
Lesra: Two white juries.
Lisa Peters: Hey, hey. Not all white people are racist.
Lesra: Not all black people are murderers.
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“You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
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宿業者是本能
則感應道交
しゅくごうはこれほんのう
すなわちかんのうどうこう
“宿業は人間の理知によって知られるものではない。生まれながらにして与えられている本能である。人間は、理知で宿業を知ろうとしても知られない。人間ぜんたい、自己ぜんたいが宿業である。宿業の主観である。だからして、宿業の中に自己がある。それで人間は宿業を知らしてもらった時は、すでに仏の本願中にある。大慈悲心のうちにある。”
《曽我量深著『歎異抄聴記』》
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. https://www.forbes.com/quotes/659/
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決意を持続させることのできるのは、習慣という怪物である。
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
狂気とは、同じ事を繰り返しながら、異なる結果を期待することである。
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. 訳:人生とは自転車のようなものだ。 倒れないようにするには走らなければならない。 https://www.toshin.com/proverb/story-p.php?id=10
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle (アリストテレス) -
人は物事を繰り返す存在である。従って、優秀さとは行動によって得られる物ではない。習慣になっていなければならないのだ。
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I think we’re all being conned by the wellness industry. This idea that it’s no longer enough to be healthy and we have to be “well” is something that needs to be interrogated. Yet it’s so seductive because it’s in pursuit of things that people are ashamed to want, like youth, beauty and fitness. #MeToo gave women an opportunity to escape some of the demands put on them. Now, in a way, people are voluntarily flocking back to being controlled but in a different guise, by these wellness claims. It’s politicised our food, politicised our exercise and I think it’s really dangerous.
— https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/11/rosamund-pike-mother-neighbor-russian-spy-people-who-knew-me-interview
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合理性は客観的か主観的かの区別がつかない。自分が思う合理的な行為が他者と共有されているかの保証はない https://bungeishunju.com/n/n3cc9a9247402
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I know that I know nothing.
私が知っているのは、私は何も知らないということだ。
または、”The only thing I know is that I know nothing” / “I know one thing; that I know nothing”/”I know that all I know is that I do not know anything”とも英訳されます。
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Nobody tells people who are beginners and I really wish somebody had told this to me is that um if you're watching this video somebody wants to make videos right? And all of us who do creative work like you know we get into it and we get into it because we have good taste. You want to make TV because you love TV you know.
I mean because there's stuff that you just like love, okay so you've got really good taste and you get into this thing that I don't know how to describe but it's like there's a gap that for the first couple years that you're making stuff what you're making isn't so good. Okay it's not that great it's it's really not that great it's it's trying to be good it has ambition to good but it's not quite that good.
But your taste the thing that got you into the game you look. Your taste is still killer and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you're making is kind of a disappointment to you. I mean but you can tell that it's still sort of crappy a lot of people never get past that phase a lot of people at that point. They quit and the thing I would just like say to you with all my heart is,
that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste, they could tell what they were making wasn't as good as they wanted it to be, they knew it, felt short you know that they didn't like some of us can admit that to ourselves and some of us are a little less able to admit that to themselves. But we knew like, it didn't have this special thing that we wanted to have and the thing I would say to you is everybody goes through that and for you to go through it.
If you're going through right now, if you're just getting out of that phase, if you're just starting off and you're entering into that phase you got to know, it's totally normal. And the most important possible thing you could do is do a lot of work, do a huge volume of work, put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month. You know you're going to finish one story you don't I mean whatever it's going to be you create the deadline it's best if you have somebody who's waiting for work for you, somebody is expecting it from you even if it's not somebody who pays you but that you're in a situation where you have to turn out the work because it's only by actually going through a volume of work that you're actually going to catch up and close that gap and you're the work you're making will be as good as your ambitions.
https://youtu.be/X2wLP0izeJE
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