“If you really want to change the world,” he said, “you don’t need millions of dollars. You need billions.”
“This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, and excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression – and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax. . . What kind of deity would create such complex and fancy worm food?”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“It’s chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression, and with all this yet to die.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“The planning process doesn’t produce strategy”
― Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
― Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our “self-improvement.”
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
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