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changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.
“I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the anecdotes, rationalizations, and episodes we tell, and see us in a noble struggle. They see the way we’re navigating the dialectics of life—intimacy versus independence, control versus uncertainty—and understand that our current self is just where we are right now, part of a long continuum of growth.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts. He has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind.”
― The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
― The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
“Anatoly Rybakov’s forbidden Children of the Arbat*6 and other good books; finally, we’d all become democrats. How”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“Leadership” is wanting to do something new and better, and getting others to go along.”
― Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust
― Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust
“As we have seen, the revolutionary governments, beset by enemies domestic and foreign, real and imagined, sought to use passport controls and other documentary means – “fragments from the wreckage of the old order” – to regulate the movements of émigrés, counterrevolutionary brigands, refractory priests, itinerant mendicants, conscripted soldiers, and the foreign-born, among others. While these devices may have been effective in many instances, the chaos and disorder ravaging the country, the efforts of dissident groups, and the lack of a well-articulated bureaucratic apparatus simply overwhelmed the government’s capacity to assert a successful monopoly on the legitimate means of movement at this time.”
― The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State
― The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State
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