About My Life
This quote by Ashleigh Brilliant about sums it up:
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
About Mentorship
This quote has guided me for much of my life:
" . . . [H]is disciple cried impetuously: 'But I believe in your cause and consider it so strong that I shall say everything, everything that I still have in my mind against it.'
The innovator laughed in his heart and wagged a finger at him. 'This kind of discipleship,' he said, 'is the best; but it is also the most dangerous, and not every kind of doctrine can endure it.'"
Friederich Nietzsche - The Gay Science (1882) Sec 106 "Music as an Advocate"
Amazing Side Effect of Humility
"Learning from people you don't like is a super power.
Takes humility."
Orwell and Huxley, per Postman
Quote:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Quotes by Mark Twain & Carl Sagan & Upton Sinclair
Three quotes for Today. Twain and Sagan quotes are quite similar, worth mentioning them both in this day and age. These are three of my favorite quotes:
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” – Mark Twain
“If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair