Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
“If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes by Walter Isaacson
Fire
Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think
your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage.
You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster
that sleeps inside you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.
Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of
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“The human epistemologies, the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God, are like the six thousand ways a river can run down from high country to low, like the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonoran … Each place is itself only, and nowhere repeated. Miss it and it's gone.” - Barry Lopez, from
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"Fear determines what is or isn't possible. If you think something is too scary, it's too scary for you. If you don't think you have any power... you don't. If you aren't the captain of your fate... then fate is the captain of you." - Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling
“Power is the currency of change, and policy is merely frozen power.” - David Rolf