Serhii Povísenko

“The kernel of a strategy contains three elements:
1. A diagnosis that defines or explains the nature of the challenge.
A good diagnosis simplifies the often overwhelming complexity of reality by identifying certain aspects of the situation as critical.
2. A guiding policy for dealing with the challenge. This is an overall approach chosen to cope with or overcome the obstacles identified in the diagnosis.
3. A set of coherent actions that are designed to carry out the guiding policy. These are steps that are coordinated with one another to work together in accomplishing the guiding policy.”
― Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Вы спрабавалі калі-небудзь спаць седзячы, прыціснуўшы спіну да мура або, лепей, да дрэва? Паспрабуйце. Вы пераканаецеся, што пачуццё падзення, якое вы часам адчуваеце, лежачы пад цёплай коўдрай, ёсць шостае пачуццё, што перайшло нам у спадчыну ад продка нашага, малпы, што яно было ёй неабходна, каб не ўпасці з дрэва. І, седзячы ля дрэва, вы ў сне будзеце падаць вельмі часта, і адкрываць вочы, і зноў засынаць. І нарэшце дзіўныя сны авалодаюць вашай душой, знікне мільён год чалавечага існавання, і вам здасца, што пад дрэвам дапатопны мамант ідзе на вадапой і вочы пячорнага мядзведзя гараць з-пад скалы.”
― Уладзімір Караткевіч, King Stakh's Wild Hunt

“I believe, then, that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance:
1. Savageness.
2. Changefulness.
3. Naturalism.
4. Grotesqueness.
5. Rigidity.
6. Redundance.
These characters are here expressed as belonging to the building; as belonging to the builder, they would be expressed thus: - 1. Savageness or Rudeness. 2. Love of Change. 3. Love of Nature. 4. Disturbed Imagination. 5. Obstinacy. 6. Generosity. And I repeat, that the withdrawal of any one, or any two, will not at once destroy the Gothic character of a building, but the removal of a majority of them will. I shall proceed to examine them in their order.”
― John Ruskin, On Art and Life