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This café is one gigantic ear!

His treasure and secret was not his doctrine but rather the inexpressible, unteachable things he had experienced in the hour of his enlightenment.

“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

Instead of being inside me, my preoccupation is a house in which I live; roaming from room to room.

“Chance favors people who do lots of experiments and then pay very close attention when something unexpected happens.”

"In order to think, speak, write, work, exist in another way, we felt we had nothing to lose by trying everything. 1968 was the first year of the world."

Love according to
Romantics: accept as they're
Ancient Greeks: admire good sides.

Talent = Path of Least Resistance

Following Through = Focus (Head) + Self-Discipline (Spine) + Action (Hands & Legs) + Persistence (Heart)

Three filters: Deletion, Distortion, Generalization.

Talent x Invest = Strength

All the images will disappear.

Books were my pass to personal freedom — Oprah Winfrey

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Truth varies depending on the phase of life and the quality of the system.

Life as an unending succession of pyramids

"Past beats inside me like a second heart."

Things endure, while the living lapse.

What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.

Perhaps all humans are lonely. At least potentially.

Words themselves were happy but the interpretation was pure heartbreak.

Find out what kind of food we have been supplying to keep suffering alive.

He created psychological portraits that rendered hidden emotions.

Organizational architecture — strategic direction, structure, core processes, and skill bases.

Change assessment ― awareness, diagnosis, vision, plan, support

I uttered her name with a strength of voice that seemed to know, almost independently of me, that I would never be able to say that word aloud again, not to anyone.

Such a thirst for life, but so diffused over everything; such immense talent, achieving nothing.

Learning process ― information gathering, analyzing, hypothesizing, and testing.