William Deresiewicz Quotes

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• There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than…
• Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself
• But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is…
• If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
• Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely…
• People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do…
• Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These,…
• If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
• Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.
• Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information,…
• People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

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