The Art of Tetman Callis

“Thought is the enemy of flow.” – Vinnie Colaiuta (quoted by Rick Beato in “Why Jeff Beck is Uncopyable”) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“I’m not the kind of guy who believes in hell, or in a god who imagines a lake of fire. I just can’t see it—you have a mind that’s wider than the sky and that is what you use it to picture? To me, that sounds too petty, too human, too undivine to be real. […]

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“The most dangerous thing in the world is a second lieutenant with a compass.” – Justin King, “Let’s talk about a BBC analysis of Russian personnel” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Is it forever that the sword must devour? Do you not know that it will be bitter afterward? Until when will you not bid the fighting-people to turn back from going after their brothers?” – II Samuel 2:26 (trans. Everett Fox) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots.” – Peter Johnson, Retired Airline Pilot, Quora Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.” – Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“It’s OK to be wrong; it’s unforgivable to stay wrong.” – Marty Zweig Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“The Negro as beast: it is always convenient and comfortable to believe that those who are about to be either killed or exploited mercilessly are something less than human, and hence available to be used for the benefit of humans. The dehumanization of the object is an important psychological precondition of destruction, and it is […]

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“Before the arrival of Europeans the peoples of West Africa had lived under a number of remarkable empires of considerable diversity. Many of these peoples were pastoral, some were agricultural; they fished, they traded extensively, they developed skilled craftsmen, well-articulated codes of law, and highly sophisticated sculpture and music. Some African cities, such as Benin, […]

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“For many thousands of servants their term of indentured servitude was a period of enforced celibacy. Marriage without the consent of the master was illegal, and the crimes of fornication and bastardy figure importantly in the records of bound servitude—not surprisingly, when we realize how many of the servant population were between the ages of […]

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“Among the by-products of English Social change of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a very substantial pool of criminal talents. The laws devised to suppress the criminal population were so harsh—scores of crimes were defined as felonies and hanging was a standard punishment for many trivial offenses—that England would have been launched upon mass […]

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“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against […]

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“Led by a young lawyer, Francis Daniel Pastorius, who was charmed at the prospect of taking a community to lead ‘a quiet, godly, and honest life in a howling wilderness,’ in 1683 a pioneer group settled in what was to be called Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, which became a center where German immigrants collected […]

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“It is hard now to imagine, but it is a matter of record that the mid-eighteenth-century mariner approaching the American strand could detect the fragrance of the pine trees about 60 leagues, or 180 nautical miles, from land.” – Richard Hofstadter, America at 1750: A Social Portrait Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“What you can laugh at, you cannot be afraid of.” – Mikhail Iossel, Notes from Cyberground Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“You can’t wait until life doesn’t hurt anymore before you decide to be happy.” – Jane “Nightbirde” Marczewski Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back … nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” – Merce Cunningham (quoted in “ ‘That Single Fleeting Moment’: Merce Cunningham in Images,” by Melissa Harris) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“It is a mistake to suppose that intellectuality necessarily makes for suspended judgments. The intellect craves certitude. It takes effort to keep it supple and pliable. In a time of danger and disaster we jump desperately for some dogma to cling to. The time comes, if we try to hold out, when our nerves are […]

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“Mental conflicts end either in a new and higher synthesis or adjustment, or else in areversion to more primitive ideas which have been outgrown but to which we dropwhen jolted out of our attained position.” – Randolph Bourne, “The War and the Intellectuals” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison, “Any Road” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“I would love to see all exotic wildlife in zoos allowed to live out their lives in peace and comfort and then not be replaced. Instead, have the zoos and aquariums be places where people – especially children – go to interact with animals that actually like us and want to be around us and […]

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“What do you want to see come into the world? How can you bring it into the world today, even just a little bit?” — Bud Smith, “Four Memories of Giancarlo DiTrapano” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Life doesn’t go on. It goes nowhere except away. Death goes on. Going on is what death does for a living. The secret to surviving in the universe is to be dead.” – Peter Schjeldahl, “The Art of Dying” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“Never say never, because it’s never never.” – Yoko Ono, “Bad Dancer” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“I was committed for two weeks to a mental health hospital for depression and suicidal behavior. Two weeks doesn’t sound long, but let me assure you that time is, in fact, relative. Imagine, if you will, being driven off in the middle of the night, poked and prodded by a doctor, having everything about you […]

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“My family moved from Taiwan to Texas when I was seven. I was in first grade, and I wore a navy-blue uniform that had the three characters of my name embroidered just above the left breast pocket. In America, I wore jeans, t-shirts, and purple shoes to school. In America, the three characters of my […]

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“We are interconnected, and the sooner every individual realizes that they are connected to all living things everywhere, the sooner they will be healthy, happy human beings.” – Paul E. Nelson (interviewed by Timothy Green in Rattle 68) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“In an explanation, simplicity is power.” – Andy Clark and David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind” Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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From the Sanskrit, there comes this: ‘Vinasa kale vibareetha pudthi’ which means, ‘When the time for your destruction is at hand you take strange decisions.’ (courtesy Abraham Sukumar at Quora) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print

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“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. Release the need to hate, to […]

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