Manolo Alvarez
rated a book it was amazing
by Sahil Bloom
Reading for the 2nd time
read in March 2025
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world: unreasonable people persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable people. ADAPTED FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
“I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
― 1984
― 1984
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
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“A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed.
Things could not go on in this manner. ”
― Les Misérables
Things could not go on in this manner. ”
― Les Misérables
“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
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