October 2010
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where…” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat.” —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where…” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat.” —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
“There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out find anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.”
—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
—Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister
“Many a false step was made by standing still.”
—Fortune Cookie
“Biologists often talk about the “ecology” of an organism: the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not a book about tall trees. It’s a book about forests…”
—Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success.
“Life is only worth a damn because it’s short, it’s designed to be consumed, used, spent, lived, felt, we’re supposed to fill it with every mistake and miracle we can manage. And then we’re supposed to let go.”
—Community S02E03. The Psychology Of Letting Go.
