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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Travel →
Wisdom →
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
~ Bill Nye
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Leadership →
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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The future →
To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do.) Each of us must find our work and do it.
~ Audre Lorde
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Reality →
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
~ Carl Jung
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Generosity →
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
~ Simone Weil
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Equal talent →
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
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Immortality →
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz
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Vulnerability →
Vulnerable is the only way we can feel when we truly share the art we’ve made. When we share it, when we connect, we have shifted the power and made ourselves naked in front of the person we’ve given the gift of our art to. We have no excuses, no manual to point to, no standard operating procedures to protect us. And that is part of our gift.
~ Seth Godin
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Hate or pain →
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin
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