
Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good…pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it won’t be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it won’t be cheap.” Fast, cheap, and good…pick (2) words to live by.
Tom Waits
more infosource: “Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits,” Sound Effects Blog, Boston Globe, May 22, 2008.
category: advice, Jim Jarmusch, school of life, wisdom
medium: Interview
“Wisdom isn’t cheap, and we pay for it with pain.”
Jonah Lehrer
more infosource: “Depression’s Upside,” The New York Times Magazine, February 25, 2010
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category: depression, pain, wisdom
medium: magazine article
notes: author's website


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