When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Eric WeinerThere's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
Eric WeinerOur happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric WeinerWe are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.
Eric WeinerJoseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
Eric WeinerThe coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your apartment probably wasn't heated, and so you went to the coffee shop. You went to the coffee shop because it was warm, because it was great Viennese coffee, and you went for the conversation and the company.
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