“Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on.” MindHumansEmotionFiguresTvsGrewIndustryOne DayBoxesFatsAwkwardReverseEmperorOnce Upon A TimeExpressing EmotionsPrawns Author:Craig Stone
“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.” MenFeelsDeathDiesOne DayAnxietyBoxesDecadesCompassionatePsychiatristConfrontingPandoraDealing With DeathPandora's Box Author:Irvin D. Yalom
“The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'” PeopleTwoMightAsksTelevisionOne DayCatWake UpTwentiesTablesBoxesSmellLike MeCuteBedroomPizzaIrresponsibleLaundryLiabilityTwenty Two Author:Donald Miller
“A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.” FeelsWholeTodayFoundMillionsRichModernOne DayBoxesBarsFeaturesMaryCandyJaneModern LifeDimesSidewalkCandy BarMary Jane Author:Russell Baker
“My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.” WayBigsSchoolFatherLeftOne DayBeatsRadioBoxesMinistersBeltsShowing OffCaribbeanFather Figure Author:Wyclef Jean
“I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"” KnowsKindArtSaidTwoBookUseWantedJobsMovingArtistGuySidesCompanyNew YorkOne DayDirectorsComputerBoxesHeavyBoardsDepartmentReviewsLunchPublishingBostonJacketsMacsBook CoversArt Director Author:Biz Stone
“Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.” PeopleValuesHateCultureNextKnownGraceLove YouDogFashionWindOne DayOfficeHollywoodBoxesUnpredictableHate YouRevenueBox OfficePersonal Values Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!” ThinkingKnowsWorldYearsWellsLittlesBigsUsedGrowsGrowingWeekMonthsCoupleOne DayRainPlantBoxesCoffeeInnocentEmsYardsBad DayChokeEggshellsBad Years Author:Tom Waits
“I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.” UsedLostOne DayBoxesRejectionSlipsAutographsAuctions Author:James Lee Burke