July 2010
24 posts
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.”
– Konrad Lorenz
“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a...”
– Ortega y Gasset, “On Love”
“My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health.”
– Robert Southwell
“To be wise is not to know particular facts but to know without excessive...”
– John Meacham, “The Loss of Wisdom”
“Every person’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.”
– Hans Christian Anderson
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river,...”
– Heraclitus
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our...”
– Eric Hoffer
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his...”
– Jacob Riis
Lant Pritchett and the hot Indian shower →
This parable for me illustrates a learning point about the value of questioning how we frame our goals, both individually and in negotiation.
“Empathy is the only human superpower—it can shrink distance, cut through social...”
– Elizabeth Thomas
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance... →
J. K. Rowling’s 2008 commencement address at Harvard.
