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Sometimes, ambitious projects are born of an obsessive-compulsive desire to tie up loose ends rather than elegant ab initio architectural visions. This book is one such project: a set of loose ends explored over three years and fifty-plus
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“The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we are actually able to do.”
― Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
― Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
“for she belonged to that class of human beings of whom spiritual activity is demanded”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Arab culture had struck me with overwhelming force. The emotional nature of these unreflective people who are so much closer to life than we are”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Anything can be settled by an intellect that is not subject to the control of feeling—and yet the intellectual still suffers from a neurosis if feeling is undeveloped.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The essential thing is to differentiate oneself from these unconscious contents by personifying them, and at the same time to bring them into relationship with consciousness. That is the technique for stripping them of their power.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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