“When you are tightly boxed in or cornered—all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions—all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“It may well be, therefore, that the true meaning of life is not to be found in what is objective, but in what is subjective (but still universal).”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing. Arrive earlier and leave later than your compatriots (but do not deny yourself your life).1 Organize what you can see is dangerously disorganized. Work, when you are working, instead of looking like you are working.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
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