Salman Ansari
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embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
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“I’ve often said I should start a new 12-step program called Recovering Nice Persons Anonymous. We would get together periodically and talk about how reflexively we compromise our values in order to be acceptable, to fit in.”
— A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis
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— A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis
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Love this. Inspires me to write fables in which the animals get the better of us. or not even fables but stories. Maybe the animals teach us the moral, in an indirect way.
“Again I followed—to find now that the third bait was gone—and the king-wolf's track led on to the fourth, there to learn that he had not really taken a bait at all, but had
... See moreWisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
Quoted this in my piece on the value of routine: Rewards of Routine
Chesterton on why children ought to be told fairy tales
When writing for children: Write up, not down. Don’t dumb it down. They love a challenge.