“I would combine radical honesty with an old rule Warren Buffett has, which is praise specifically, criticize generally.”
― The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
― The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“We, most of us, may be born with an innate desire for friendship, companionship, and love, but being good at any of those things takes work. There is no quick method for learning how to do it right. Floyd ultimately became a very wonderful and supportive husband No marriage is perfect; it’s a question of whether the marriage matters to you enough to be able to make adjustments and repairs—and we did that.”
― Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
― Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
“A work of art tends to speak of things that are at once too large and too intimate to be summed up, and they speak of them by not speaking at all.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“Birding shifts your perceptions, adding new layers of meaning and brokering connections: between sounds and seasons, across far-flung places, and between who we are as people and a wild world that both transcends and embraces us. In my life, it has been a window into the wondrous.”
― Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
― Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
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