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"I don't want you to hang my portraits in your offices. Because a President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang pictures of your children instead. And before you make any decision, look into their eyes." — Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Anu • Franchise Thinking

“A mind that’s all logic is like a knife that’s all blade. It cuts the hand that wields it.” —Rabindranath Tagore

There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes of building a company. He says, "If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" You have to embrace that sailing means that you... See more

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain

All complaining comes at the expense of improving.

If you knew how every complaint you voice trains your brain to hunt for more things to complain about, then you would bite your tongue until it bled before speaking another grievance, you'd realize bitching is voluntary brain damage

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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)