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Then he gives a speech. Gil, who learned English from newspapers and baseball games, delivers a flowing, lilting, poetic monologue, right outside Joe’s, and one of the great regrets of my life is that I don’t have a tape recorder with me.
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“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The problem with problem-solving methods, which all business methodologies are, is that they are abstractions, but the world is not abstract. Real work contains hard parts that no method can dictate for you. No method can capture how and when to abandon the method or tweak it; only a team and its leader can do that. And for a team to do that successfully, they need to trust each other.”
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
“Laughter paves the way for many things. It's one way to build intimacy between”
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
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“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
― The Travels of Ibn Battutah
― The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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