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“I have always been able to remember everything about you from the side. Your profile, the way you walk, how you talk—that’s the way I always think of you. From the front, I can’t recall a thing. Strange, isn’t it?”
—Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Well, we use words to communicate, right? Still, most of our words don’t actually get across. You know what I mean? Well, our words might, but not what we’re actually trying to say. That’s what we’re always dealing with. We live in this place, in this world, where we can share our words but not our thoughts.
Mieko Kawakami • Breasts and Eggs
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
refined action comes neither from your effort nor from someone else’s. If your effort were not supported by the universe as a whole, you could not make any real effort at all. Pure, refined action makes no distinction between self and others.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
“Now it is raining, but we don’t know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don’t know, let’s appreciate the sound of the rain now.”
Shunryu Suzuki • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Deming gave Japan a fundamentally different view on how to practice capitalism. Instead of companies competing with each other to get a bigger slice of the pie, they should cooperate together to grow the size of the pie instead.