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“First of all, if we’re serious all the time, we’ll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done. Second, if this book…

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“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? Mastery by George Leonard. I first read this book 20 years ago, after reading Leonard’s Esquire article, the seed from which the book grew. Leonard wrote the book to share lessons from becoming…

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“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore? Nobody really knows what the world and the job market will look like in 2040, hence nobody knows what to teach young people today. Consequently, it is likely that most of what you currently learn at school will…

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“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see…

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“information without emotion isn’t retained.”

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“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.”

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“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? Most of the game is about persistence. It is the most important trait. Sure, when you get an opportunity, you have to perform and you have to exceed beyond all expectations, but getting that chance is the hardest part. So keep the vision…

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“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. . . . Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what…

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“conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want…

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“What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please,”

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“The fishing is best where the fewest go,”

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“Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production; using people as a solution to a poor process multiplies problems.”

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The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone…

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We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize…

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Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do.

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It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with…

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“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a…

Umberto Eco

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

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“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste' 'It seems big enough when you're in it, Sir.' 'And yet…

C.S. Lewis

“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded thinking. Technology must be used in as neutral a way as possible, not blind us to the truth about whom we are as real people. Some people give far too much personal power to this false reality. Instead…

M.P. Neary

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking…

Maurice Merleau-Ponty