Låt oss inte förstöra det genom att tänka

Ett glas vitt och Esquires januarinummer är inget dumt sätt att ta död på en timmes flygresa. Varje år gör de ett temanummer av sin återkommande avdelning What I've Learned. Här är några godbitar:

Philip Glass:
»When you're really working, really playing tennis, lifting weights, playing basketball, or whatever it is—it happens in sports, it happens in music, it happens in everything—when you're fully consumed with the act, the witness just disappears. And for that reason, when someone asks, ›What was it like?‹ you can't remember, because the person inside of you who does the remembering was otherwise occupied.«

Wayne Newton minns en Sinatra-anekdot:
»He was working a place in Philadelphia, and one night the place was packed and young girls were screaming. The owner told me that it was a rainy night and Frank was late. It was a two-story building, and he walked out onto the porch above the alley to see if Sinatra was on his way. He said, ›Right then, I see Frank jump out of a cab and run like hell down the alley, and when he got a hundred feet from the stage door, he stopped, took off his coat, hung it over his shoulder, straightened his hat, and slowly walked in.‹ Now that's a picture worth remembering.«

Philip Glass igen:
»What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.«

Och så Clintan:
»As Jerry Fielding used to say: ›We've come this far, let's not ruin it by thinking.‹«