It’s easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more of a right to be called our offices than our offices. Alain de Botton Read Quote
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we’re forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need. Alain de Botton Read Quote
I’ve tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises. Alain de Botton Read Quote
The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane – and because it’s so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings. Alain de Botton Read Quote
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, ‘Why is this bugger on television?’ Alain de Botton Read Quote
It’s great to get an ‘F’, but you also want to give the sense that there’s something outside achievement. I’ve seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don’t feel they’ve achieved much. Alain de Botton Read Quote
I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I’m more worried that I’m going to die before I’ve had time. Alain de Botton Read Quote
What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete. Alain de Botton Read Quote
