Quotes

Common sense →

Published Jul 22, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 22  ·  , ,

But I am still optimist enough to credit life with invincibility, I am still ready to bet that the non-human otherness at the root of man’s being will ultimately triumph over the all too human selves who frame the ideologies and engineer the collective suicides. For our survival, if we do survive, we shall be less beholden to our common sense […] that to our caterpillar- and cicadea-sense, to intelligence, in other words, as it operates on the organic level.

~ Aldous Huxley

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Challenged to change →

Published Jul 21, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 21  ·  ,

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

~ Viktor Frankl

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Common mistakes →

Published Jul 20, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 20  ·  ,

Four common mistakes that help you hide— Busy is the same as brave. A mentor is going to change your life. Waiting to get picked is the next step. There is a secret, and you will soon learn it.

~ Seth Godin

Elsewhere, this is 4a1215. — slipbox

Computers →

Published Jul 19, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 19  ·  ,

Every day, computers are making people easier to use.

~ David Temkin

Elsewhere, this is 4a1214. — slipbox

Underemployed →

Published Jul 18, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 18  ·  , ,

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.

~ Amos Tversky

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Place →

Published Jul 17, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 17  ·  

When you get older, you realize it’s a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It’s not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.

~ Natalie Portman

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Idleness →

Published Jul 16, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 16  ·  

[H]ad I my life to arrange over again, I would do again as I have done. Only those who have lived at the full stretch seven days a week for a long time can appreciate the full beauty of a regular recurring idleness. Moreover, I am ageing. And it is a question of age. In cases of a bounding youth and exceptional energy and desire for effort I should say unhesitatingly: Keep going, day in, day out.

~ Arnold Bennett

Elsewhere, this is 4a1211. — slipbox

More than just questions →

Published Jul 15, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 15  ·  , ,

Questions alone are not enough. Context matters. The mind-set that people bring to the room matters. How people came to be in the room matters. The room itself matters. The social structure of how people talk to each other matters. The action of the leader/convener matters.

~ Peter Block

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Speak →

Published Jul 14, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 14  ·  

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Elsewhere, this is 4a1209. — slipbox

Crazy →

Published Jul 13, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 13  ·  , ,

If you want these crazy ideas and these crazy stages, this crazy music, and this crazy way of thinking, there’s a chance it might come from a crazy person.

~ Kayne West

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