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“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Well of AscensionPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me a lot of trouble in this world has its origins in vague speech. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they’re asking for trouble
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” Zooey
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head – and I could not get it out – that college was one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference if treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping – and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge – when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway – is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Franny
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 5:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“People are so goddamn predictable. i should write a book about how to suckerpunch people into caring.” Jibsen
Speaker: Reif LarsenSource: The Selected Works of T.S. SpivetPosted: 18 May 2010 at 7:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most efficient route that nature has found from point A to point B is rarely a straight line. It is always the path of least resistance. The most efficient way to to turn someone’s talent into performance is to help him find his own path of least resistance toward the desired outcomes.
Speaker: Marcus Buckingham & Curt CoffmanSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still maintain the ability to function.
Speaker: F. Scott FitzgeraldSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A question where everyone always answers “Strongly Agree” is a weak question
Speaker: Marcus Buckingham & Curt CoffmanSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When walking, walk. When eating, eat.
Speaker: Zen proverbPosted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water
Speaker: Zen proverbPosted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life
Speaker: Katherine F. GerouldPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves
Speaker: Edwin Way TealPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials
Speaker: Lin YutangPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Speaker: Leonardo da VinciPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!