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Quotes

Emotions, institutions, technology

October 4, 2023

The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.

~ Edward O. Wilson

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Quotes Society Edward O. Wilson

Able to hear myself

October 3, 2023

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes Life Balance Self-care 7 for Sunday

Until I hear

October 2, 2023

I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, “I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say”; but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.

~ Mary Rueflé

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Quotes On Writing Conversation Mary Rueflé

Relationships

October 1, 2023

I’m saying that it is necessary to share meaning. A society is a link of relationships among people and institutions, so that we can live together. But it only works if we have a culture—which implies that we share meaning; i.e., significance, purpose, and value. Otherwise it falls apart.

~ David Bohm

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Quotes Society Culture Conversation 7 for Sunday David Bohm

Just kidding

September 30, 2023

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

~ Isaac Asimov

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Snark Politics Quotes Isaac Asimov 7 for Sunday

Little things

September 29, 2023

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

~ Ernest Dimnet

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Quotes Focus Principles Ernest Dimnet

Irritation

September 28, 2023

A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

~ Kevin Kelly

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7 for Sunday Kevin Kelly Self-improvement Quotes

There is a tide

September 27, 2023

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea as we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

~ Shakespeare‘s Julius Caesar

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7 for Sunday Shakespeare Inspiration Quotes Literature

On creativity

September 26, 2023

A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All this happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may sharpen our art.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

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Quotes On Writing Creativity 7 for Sunday Jorge Luis Borges

Flattery

September 25, 2023

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

~ Denis Diderot

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Quotes Self-awareness Denis Diderot

If possible

September 24, 2023

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

~ Goethe

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Goethe Listening Reading Quotes

Silence

September 23, 2023

Silence is exhilarating at first—as noise is—but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

~ Edward Hoagland

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Quotes Listening Silence 7 for Sunday Edward Hoagland

Fear

September 22, 2023

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

~ Francis Chan

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Francis Chan Progress Getting Things Done Quotes

Growth

September 21, 2023

There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

~ Fred Rogers

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Quotes Growth Fred Rogers 7 for Sunday

Creativity

September 20, 2023

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

~ Anthony Jay

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Quotes Questions Anthony Jay

Knowledge

September 19, 2023

A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Quotes 7 for Sunday Knowledge Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sight

September 18, 2023

I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

~ Agnes Varda

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Quotes Perspective Agnes Varda

Travel

September 17, 2023

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.

~ Paul Auster

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Quotes Travel Perspective Paul Auster

Wisdom

September 16, 2023

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

~ Bill Nye

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Wisdom Quotes 7 for Sunday Bill Nye

Leadership

September 15, 2023

Leading into a world of unknowns, a world where you don’t have the answer, the best you can do is to ask better questions, as well as help those around you to do the same.

~ Pascal Finette

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Quotes Leadership Pascal Finette

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