Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.
You get the most out of what you need the least.
Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
If people want to watch that five hours [of stream show] on their own terms in their own schedule. It needs to work if somebody wants to stop after an hour and a half or stop after half an hour. People talk about it like food. Like, "I just want to let you know I'm saving it." They talk about it like pasta. "I'm saving it. I'm only going to have one a week." And I love the fact that everybody can have their own experience and I want to make sure that what we put out there works in as many ways as possible.
I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.
I don't buy or wear nothing I don't like.
