“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”
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“It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. —Shunryu”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“confidence was cash. You had to have some to get some. And people were loath to give it to you.”
― Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
― Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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