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“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone.”
― Andrew Smith, Moondust

“Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.”
― Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

“I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that”
― Simon Schama

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander. It is tempting to say that a Nazi murderer is beyond the pale of understanding. ...Yet to deny a human being his human character is to render ethics impossible.

To yield to this temptation, to find other people inhuman, is to take a step toward, not away from, the Nazi position. To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it's about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.”
― Marilyn Manson

“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Henry Ford summed it up best. “If I had asked people what they wanted,” he said, “they would have said a faster horse.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“This is important because our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we know.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Great leaders are those who trust their gut. They are those who understand the art before the science. They win hearts before minds. They are the ones who start with WHY.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people pull together as a team.”
― simon sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

“Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

“For great leaders, The Golden Circle is in balance. They are in pursuit of WHY, they hold themselves accountable to HOW they do it and WHAT they do serves as the tangible proof of what they believe.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Average companies give their people something to work on. In contrast, the most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“And that’s what trust is. We don’t just trust people to obey the rules, we also trust that they know when to break them.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

“Finding WHY is a process of discovery, not invention.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Passion alone can't cut it. For passion to survive it needs structure. A why without how has little probability of success.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“The lack of a clear set of values and beliefs, along with the weak culture that resulted, created the conditions for an every-man-for-himself environment, the long-term impact of which could yield little else than disaster. This is caveman stuff.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action