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“At the point when adding people into the company feels like more work than the work that you can offload to the new employees, the defensive lineman has run around you and you probably need to start giving ground grudgingly.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“Perhaps the most important thing that I learned as an entrepreneur was to focus on what I needed to get right and stop worrying about all the things that I did wrong or might do wrong.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Being prepared isn’t a matter of how much you practice. It’s about knowing that even if you fail, you won’t give up.”
― John Maeda, Redesigning Leadership

“I’ve come to realize, however, that while technology may make it more convenient to communicate, it doesn’t improve our ability to get a point across.”
― John Maeda, Redesigning Leadership

“respect is constantly earned, and shouldn’t be assumed because of your position.”
― John Maeda, Redesigning Leadership

“Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Peugeot belongs to a particular genre of legal fictions called ‘limited liability companies’. The idea behind such companies is among humanity’s most ingenious inventions. Homo sapiens lived for untold millennia without them. During most of recorded history property could be owned only by flesh-and-blood humans, the kind that stood on two legs and had big brains.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Since around 200 BC, most humans have lived in empires. It seems likely that in the future, too, most humans will live in one. But this time the empire will be truly global. The imperial vision of dominion over the entire world could be imminent.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

“We notice what varies and changes more than what plays a large role but doesn’t change. We”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Medieval crusaders believed that God and heaven provided their lives with meaning; modern liberals believe that individual free choices provide life with meaning. They are all equally delusional.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Identity is defined by conflicts and dilemmas more than by agreement.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Montaigne: “There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country? Never has such a case occurred because the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world.”
― Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind

“One-third of the landscape of the lower forty-eight states is covered in trees—728 million acres in all. Maine alone has 10 million uninhabited acres. That’s 15,600 square miles, an area considerably bigger than Belgium, without a single permanent resident. Altogether, just 2 percent of the United States is classified as built up.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“There are 378,000 miles of roads in America’s national forests. That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“Today the National Park Service employs a more casual approach to endangering wildlife: neglect. It spends almost nothing—less than 3 percent of its budget—on research of any type, which is why no one knows how many mussels are extinct or even why they are going extinct.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“Turgenev's brain was found to be one of the largest on record for neurologically typical individuals, weighing 2012 grams.”
― Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons-Original Edition