The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~ Brian Greene
Elsewhere, this is 4a1444. — slipbox
Flexibility →
Distraction →
The defenders of our freedom have failed to take into account our infinite appetite for distraction.
~ Aldous Huxley
Elsewhere, this is 4a1442. — slipbox
Converse →
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
~ R. W. Emerson
Elsewhere, this is 4a1440. — slipbox
Self →
I should not talk so much about myself if there was anybody else whom I knew so well.
~ H. D. Thoreau
Elsewhere, this is 4a1438. — slipbox
Separation →
[O]ne of the most fundamental struggles for any leader—in business, in organizations, or in public life—stems directly from the separation that most of us feel between who we are as people and what we do as practical professionals.
~ William Isaacs
Elsewhere, this is 4a1437. — slipbox
Precious →
Strangeness →
This planet is genuinely strange. If we were all flown to the moon or to Mars and walked around on them, they wouldn’t seem that strange to us because there would be no yardsticks or anything to measure their strangeness by—they’re just vast museums of geology. Whereas the Earth is a deranged zoo, and somebody left the doors of the cages open. We have real strangeness because we can measure the degree to which things are or are not what they ought to be.
~ J. G. Ballard
Elsewhere, this is 4a1435. — slipbox
Giving →
The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
~ Annie Dillard
Elsewhere, this is 4a1433. — slipbox
Confidence →
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
~ Robert Hughes
Elsewhere, this is 4a1432. — slipbox