About My Spare Brain

I spend much time searching for things - books, films, stories, quotes, songs, jokes, pictures, poems, prayers, anything really - that helps me see and think differently. Some of the ideas I've come across are presented in my book, See New Now. Others are fleshed out in my other blog. The rest are stored here for use in future books, articles, blog posts, speeches, and workshops. There is little rhyme or reason for what I post here. I do this to encourage visitors to come here as treasure hunters looking for new ways of seeing and thinking vs. researchers looking for new or better answers to questions they already know how to ask.

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My other blog is Conversation Kindling. Its purpose is to pass along stories, metaphors, quotes, songs, humor, etc. in hopes they'll be used to spark authentic and rewarding conversations about working and living fruitfully. There are at least three things you can gain by getting involved in these conversations. First, you can discover new and important things about yourself through the process of thinking out loud. Second, you can deepen your relationships with others who join you by swapping thoughts, feelings, and stories with them. Finally, you'll learn that robust dialogue centered on stories and experiences is the best way to build trust, create new knowledge, and generate innovative answers to the questions that both life and work ask.

February 5, 2010

ODDS & ENDS: Criminal Minds Quotes, What Makes Us Moral?, Jeffrey Dahmer, Criminal Profiling

Criminal Minds - Season 1
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets." - Cory Doctorow

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for." - James Reese

"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror." - Jacques Rigaut

"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument of its existence, rather, a condition of it." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"With foxes, we must play the fox." - Thomas Fuller

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else." - Ernest Hemingway

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Oxton Bolton

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." - Eugene Ionesco

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Evil is always unspectacular and alway human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table." - W.H. Auden

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal." - Albert Pine

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." - Mahatma Gandhi

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." - Diane Arbus

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." - Anthony Brandt

"The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman." - Mexican proverb

"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." - Voltaire

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." - Francois de la Roche Foucald

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

Elie Wiesel, What Makes Us Moral?


Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer Interview: Segment 1 - Part 1


Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer Interview: Segment 1 - Part 2 (Video)
Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer Interview: Segment 1 - Part 3 (Video)
Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer Interview: Segment 1 - Part 4 (Video)
Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer Interview: Segment 1 - Part 5 (Video)
Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer Interview: Segment 1 - Part 6 (Video)

From The New Yorker
Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling Made Easy by Malcolm Gladwell

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