Quotes
This was nothing like Tokyo
“This was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care. History there had become a quantity, a rare thing, parceled out by government and preserved by law and corporate funding. Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
-William Gibson (Mona Lisa Overdrive)
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Kevin Kelly writes:
“Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.”
I couldn’t agree more.
The best single sentence (so far) from “Nexus” by Yuval Noah Harari :
”As Marshall McLuhan might have put it, the pigeon was the message.”
“Nobody will open a book and wish it contains more types of letters or be disappointed because it is, again, just another variation of the same alphabet.”
-Sönke Ahrens
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“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
-Francis Bacon
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“The future is like weather: a thousand thunderheads on the horizon, a haze of weird thunder-sleet in our eyes, and we never know where the lightning is going to strike. The best we can do is prepare for each possible hit by testing the possibilities.”
-Warren Ellis
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“When asked how he would order his thoughts if he had one hour to save the world, Einstein sagely responded that he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and save the world in five minutes.”
-Jim Mattis
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“The future is unwritten.”
-Joe Strummer
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“The easiest way to learn directly is to simply spend a lot of time doing the thing you want to become good at.”
-Scott H. Young
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“Without gratitude what is the point of seeing, and without seeing what is the object of gratitude?”
-Epictetus
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“People who offer bad advice are trying to relive their old glories.”
-Mike Maples Jr.
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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue”
-Antisthenes
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“The disease of our time is that we live on the surface.”
-Steven Pressfield
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”The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude."
-Oprah Winfrey
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“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
-Winston Churchill
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”The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting."
-Plutarch
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“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
-Cynthia Ozick
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”Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley
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“The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they can overrule the hierarchy.”
-Jeff Bezos
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“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
-Guy Kawasaki
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