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“Stay, but do what you would as a consultant and nothing else. And don’t tell anyone.”
“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
“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
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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“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
“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
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