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“So it’s tempting to read other people’s lives as cautionary fables or repudiations of our own, to covet or denigrate them instead of seeing them for what they are: other people’s lives, island universes, unknowable. Not”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
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A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
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“traditional business strategy too often does not bother to create a story or narrative about its actions for its employees and the world to gather around. For the strategy to become reality, people need to see themselves in the story and then take action to make the story happen.”
― Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
― Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
“The trick, I suppose, is to find someone with a touch of the pathology you require, but not so much that it will destroy you. But,”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but, over time, devour us from the inside out. Except it’s even more insidious than most vices because we don’t even consciously acknowledge that it’s a pleasure. We prefer to think of it as a disagreeable but fundamentally healthy reaction to negative stimuli, like pain or nausea, rather than admit that it’s a shameful kick we eagerly indulge again and again, like compulsive masturbation. And,”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
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