Tag: self reflection
34 quotes
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If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we couldn’t understand it.
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# How to become wiser ## Seeking perspective What’s another way to look at this? What assumptions am I making right now? How would an objective observer describe what happened? Who is this benefitting and who is it hurting? What would…
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The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see.
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What Have I Learned What have I learned but the proper use for several tools? The moments between hard pleasant tasks To sit silent, drink wine, and think my own kind of dry crusty thoughts. —the first Calochortus…
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Focused agency >>> dispersed curiosity When intelligence is free, pay up in imagination Cultivate taste like art curators and fashion designers ChatGPT is not a person, but it is your acquaintance To know if AI works, don’t read news—try it…
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Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.
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We were the masters. The rulers. We’re now (still) the ideators albeit not the main constructors. And soon, we’ll be just spectators, mere observers of a world neither built by us nor understood by us. A world that unfolds before our eyes too…
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Nowhere can man find retirement more peaceful and untroubled than in his own soul.
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Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality.
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Solitude… is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert. I am mountains. I am Great Salt Lake. There are other languages being spoken by wind, water, and wings. There are other lives to consider:…
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!
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# Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from…
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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The first is humility. Humility amounts to an understanding that the world is not divided into good and bad people, but rather it is made up of all manner of individuals, each broken in their own way, each caught up in the common human struggle and…
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You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you might find You get what you need
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I think I’ve discovered the secret of life–you just hang around until you get used to it.
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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“Dum volvo video disco”
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(About writing) Now I think of myself as a shopkeeper: It is my job to open up in the morning, sit, and wait for customers. If I get some, it is a blessed morning, if not, well, I'm still doing my job.
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Despite our best efforts, some things we believe are probably wrong. We certainly are very keen on recognizing the errors of past times and other nations. Why should our nation, why should our time, be different? If there are things that we believe,…
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The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
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It’s a funny thing to experience one’s passion - sexual desire - no longer a sort of wandering thing, but steady and calm. I think when one loves, one’s very sexual passion becomes calm, a steady sort of force instead of a storm. Passion that…
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Proclaiming what’s going to happen is a popular way to shrug off taking responsibility for helping to determine what’s going to happen.
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As the old man aged He stayed engaged He still burned to learn Why bother he was asked Surprised Why ask he replied I haven't died Haven't you noticed Everything changes There's always something new to learn each day That's why my…
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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There are two types of listeners: those that listen, and those that wait to talk.
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Do a little life math. If you are the common denominator in a series of repeating problems it’s probably you.
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Don't believe everything you think.
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No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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