Eric

“I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.”
― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise

“Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason. Perhaps everything on God’s green earth was the result of a flawless plan, even that which seemed most muddled.”
― Roy L. Pickering Jr., Patches of Grey

“If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider’s intellectual objectivity. They must do what they need to do to get through the strategic inflection point unfettered by any emotional attachment to the past. That’s what Gordon and I had to do when we figuratively went out the door, stomped out our cigarettes and returned to do the job.”
― Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive

“My mind, which I used to consider a great ally, has turned into a sparrow on a leash.”
― Dessa, Spiral Bound