“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“I’d say, ‘Trane, man, why are you doing that, beating on your chest and howling in the microphone?’” Ali remembered in an interview. “He’d say, ‘Man, I can’t find nothing else to play on the horn.’ He exhausted the saxophone. He couldn’t find nothing else to play … he ran out of horn.”
― Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
― Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
“The job of a journalist would be unbearable if one was always to put oneself in the shoes of a subject.”
― Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
― Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
“In a sane system, a political article that generated thousands of comments would be an indicator that something went wrong. It means the conversation descended into an unproductive debate about abortion or immigration, or devolved into mere complaining. But in the broken world of the web, it is the mark of a professional.”
― Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
― Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
“Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.”
― It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
― It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
“It’s not a huge deal,” he said. “Just don’t go anywhere you’re not supposed to be and remember to smile and wave to the man in the bushes outside your house when you leave for work.”
― Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
― Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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