December 2009
8 posts
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commecement Speech, 2005 (via dancetoomuchbootyinthepants) (via delbertshoopman) (via louobedlam)
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a...”
– Charles Factotum, 1975
“‘Grown men,’ he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated...”
– Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Thus was the essence of the master, Peter Drucker
“The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush…”
— In 1998, when the writer Harriet Rubin...
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