James

“If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

“The empty mind is a dominant mind. It can draw other minds into its rhythm, the way a vacuum sucks up dirt or the way the person on the bottom of a seesaw controls the person on the top. When I hear a runner say he “runs his own race,” what I hear is bushido.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Injuries are our best teachers.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking