Words & Letters“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse
“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce. Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.” – Adam Grant
“Our true nationality is mankind.” ― H.G. Wells
“When men oppress their fellow men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” – Frederick Douglass
“The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control—when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life; when nobody’s angry with you for missing a deadline or dropping the ball; and when […]
The End of the Beginning
The Home Stretch
Something Broken, Something Borrowed
Fall Back Into It
So it goes