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Posts Tagged “quote”
“We do not deal with one another as soul to soul”
by JS on March 18, 2012
From Marilynne Robinson’s Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred: Simultaneously, and in a time of supposed religious revival, and among those especially inclined to feel religiously revived, we have a society increasingly defined by economics, and an economics increasingly reminiscent (…)
Everyone has unrealistic dreams of heroic success, right?
by JS on November 23, 2010
“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of (…)
more advice, this time from a book
by JS on October 18, 2010
“Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, (…)