{"id":2626,"date":"2009-12-22T06:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2009-12-22T06:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:19:05","slug":"best-sentences-read-today-thoughts-on-tour-hoehns-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/best-sentences-read-today-thoughts-on-tour-hoehns-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sentence(s) Read Today :: Thoughts on tour \u00ab Hoehn\u2019s Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I<strong> actually shouldn\u2019t even call them failures, because they were really just attempts. <\/strong> There\u2019s a huge difference there. Everyone has failures, but most people never attempt things just for the sake of trying out something that looks fun, interesting, or challenging.  <strong>For some reason, a lot of us reach a point where we stop doing things for the hell of it.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Why do you think I\u2019m such a huge proponent of free work?  Doing work for free forces you to find jobs where you can honestly say, \u201cI would do this even if I weren\u2019t being paid for it.\u201d<\/strong> That\u2019s an expression I took a bit too literally, but it is spot on.<br \/>\nMy favorite part of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Dark Knight: Wide Screen Collector's Edition (With 2-in-1 DC Comic Book and Two-Face Replica Collector Coin)\" rel=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Knight-Collectors-2-Collector\/dp\/B001NFWSCE%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001NFWSCE\">The Dark Knight<\/a> is when the Joker is talking to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Two-Face\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-Face\">Harvey Dent<\/a> in the hospital, and he says: \u201c<strong>Do I really look like a guy with a plan?<\/strong> You know what I am? I\u2019m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn\u2019t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, <strong>I just DO things\u2026 I\u2019m not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/charliehoehn.com\/2009\/08\/29\/thoughts-on-tour\/\">Thoughts on tour \u00ab Hoehn\u2019s Musings<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. I&#8217;m guilty of this, I&#8217;ve fallen for the habit of trying to find the path to money from stuff that I do for fun.\u00a0 Blogging started out with that in mind, It has since changed.\u00a0 I now feel as if I need to write things down, as if things not written in the blog will just be forgotten. I have to DO!!!! 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