Andreea Bota

“Love is a creative act. When you love someone, you create a world for them.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“For most companies it’s ‘difficult, if not impossible, to trace the minerals’ origins,’ as the computer manufacturer Dell notes. Such lack of transparency is hardly a fail-safe situation when companies often need hundreds or thousands of components or more.”
― David S. Abraham, The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

“You don't need to believe in God, but you do need the capacity to believe that things will get better.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future, in Gonzalez’s resonant phrase. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that we don’t have that memory and that reality doesn’t necessarily match our plans; hope like creative ability can come from what the Romantic poet John Keats called Negative Capability. On”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me