Reggie

“There are variations in the quality of deviation; not all divergence from the past is culturally significant. Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance. Greater significance attaches to those variations that bring the tradition into view in a new way, allowing the familiar to be seen as unfamiliar, as requiring a new appraisal of all that we have been—and therefore of all that we are.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“He was interested in only one thing: turning out the best job he could, with the skill he possessed.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Collection

“It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

“You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change