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  • #1
    Joseph Campbell
    “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #2
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”
    Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology

  • #3
    Joseph Campbell
    “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
    Joseph Campbell
    tags: life

  • #4
    Joseph Campbell
    “Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #5
    Joseph Campbell
    “We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #6
    Joseph Campbell
    “Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #7
    Joseph Campbell
    “Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

  • #8
    Joseph Campbell
    “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #9
    Joseph Campbell
    “We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

  • #10
    Joseph Campbell
    “If you are falling....dive.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #11
    “How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.”
    Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

  • #12
    “Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.”
    Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

  • #13
    Sebastian Junger
    “How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?”
    Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

  • #14
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

  • #15
    Jarod Kintz
    “At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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    Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

  • #16
    Robert Skidelsky
    “If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.”
    Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master

  • #17
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    Buckminster Fuller

  • #18
    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”
    Buckminster Fuller

  • #19
    “Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?

    Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.”
    Rex Miller Sr.

  • #20
    Tom Rath
    “From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.”
    Tom Rath, Strengths Finder 2.0

  • #21
    “The leadership of engagement begins by reconnecting to the physicality and the people of a company, not simply its spreadsheet. It all begins in the workplace.”
    Mabel Casey Rex Miller, Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and Growth

  • #22
    “I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.”
    Pete Carroll, Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

  • #23
    Joseph Campbell
    “Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth



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