I owe it to myself to be consistent.
I owe it to myself to be disciplined.
I owe it to myself to stay focused.
I owe it to myself to be consistent.
I owe it to myself to be disciplined.
I owe it to myself to stay focused.
me with 0 drinks in me, unprompted: lorde literally INVENTED the sad indie girl pop sound that artists like alessia cara and halsey are using today when she was only fifteen years old and the reason royals was such a hit was because it sounded like nothing else on the radio or the charts at the moment and for someone who has been so influential she is criminally underappreciated in this essay i will
*throws rocks at God’s window* hey! Why did u make me
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
“I’ve been trying to go home my whole life—”
— Chelsea Dingman, from “Psychogeography,” published in The Los Angeles Review (via lifeinpoetry)
Trying to find something to motivate myself and I found this little line from Van Gogh
“Refuse to inherit dysfunction. Learn new ways of living instead of repeating what you’ve lived through.”
— Thema Davis
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Source: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that Derek Roger suggested! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
NOUNS (about 120 words)
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
VERBS (about 100 words)
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
showing up late to a meeting with an iced drink is a power move. like with hot drinks the cup is opaque and people cant tell the temperature so they dont know how long ago you got it. maybe its hours old. maybe you just got caught in traffic. who can say. but iced drinks. its clear. they can see the ice. they can see if its still frozen. they look you in the eye and they know you were standing in line fifteen minutes ago and made the conscious, deliberate decision to get a mocha frap instead of being on time. and then you made ANOTHER conscious, deliberate decision to bring it into the meeting with you, informing everyone in attendance that on your list of priorities, each and every one of them ranks firmly below one (1) mocha frappuchino.
2005 pride and prejudice: *darcy flexes his hand*
me:
Steven Yeun // GQ Korea 2018
Life of Pi (2012) Directed by Ang Lee