When we’re showing up fully moment to moment, there’s no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here’s to getting our areté on!
BRIAN JOHNSONThey’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like ‘grrrr!” and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’
More Brian Johnson Quotes
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The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.
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Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.
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Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.
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I’m an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock’n’roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
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If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as ‘excellence’ or ‘virtue,’ but has a deeper meaning — something closer to ‘expressing the highest version of ourselves.’
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If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.
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Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work… is my brain – particularly the right brain… the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.
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They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like ‘grrrr!” and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’
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A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she’s virgin material or a common ore.
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I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It’s still the most beautiful shape in the world.
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Painting is so much more than the materials.
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I’ve learned what works and what doesn’t, which gives me confidence.
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And Jesus wakes up and says “What you guys got is a problem, no?” and he commands the seas to be calm that’s true worship.
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The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.
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