Walter Briggs
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Walter Briggs
There are good ships and wood ships, and ships that sail the sea,
but the best ships are friendships,
and may they always be.
~ Irish Proverb Lubec, Maine
- OLD and new put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties. All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
Intentionality
the inconvenience of convenience
- I'm fed up. At this point in my career, I'm tired of writing the most milquetoast, pushover, inoffensive, coddling copy that (seemingly) every brand wants to use in marketing and advertising communications. "We help build solutions." "Our people are our secret sauce.""Customer service sets us apart.""We're eco-friendly.Every brand says this. These ... See more
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- Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: There must be something you want to do.
- Pierre Bezukhov: I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when
from War and Peace (1956) - Quotes - IMDb
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
from Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
