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“I try to think the simpler thing; it’s easier that way. But then life complicates it, two minds living and thinking in the same small space. You think you’ve placed a thought or a memory so you can live with it, and then that other mind comes crowding in and knocks it down.”
― Sweet Water
― Sweet Water
“The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works.”
― The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
― The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“We treat ourselves both as objects of language and as speakers of language, both as objects of the symbolism and as symbols in it. And all the difficult paradoxes which go right back to Greek times and reappear in modern mathematics depend essentially on this.”
― The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
― The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“[When] we practice science (and this is true of all our experience), we are always decoding a part of nature which is not complete. We simply cannot get out of our own finiteness.”
― The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
― The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“[Empathy] is not about being nice or agreeing with the other side. It's about understanding them. Empathy helps us learn the position the enemy is in, why their actions make sense (to them), and what might move them.
As negotiators we use empathy because it works.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
As negotiators we use empathy because it works.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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