When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Communication doesn’t take place because you tell somebody something. It takes place when you observe them closely and track their ability to follow you. Like.
You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat the help.
Ignorance was my ally as long as it was backed up by curiosity. Ignorance without curiosity is not so good, but with curiosity it was the clear water through which I could see the coins at the bottom of the fountain.
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.
I would come in armed with only curiosity, and my own natural ignorance. I was learning the value of bringing my ignorance to the surface... Ignorance was my ally, as long as it was backed up by curiosity. Ignorance without curiosity is not so good, but with curiosity, it was the clear water through which I could see the coins at the bottom of the fountain.
Starting with a gray cloud of brain cells that was subject to storms and flash floods, I had to learn to make my own internal weather.
Aren’t we lucky to be us?
If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don’t assume you think like a snake unless you are one.
Anesthetized by youth, I missed it.
Sometimes, being willing to see the other person means you have to be willing to let them see you.
You’re going to learn if something’s bad. It’s not like you’re going to say, ‘Well, that lion was really unpleasant. I think maybe I’ll come back here and see if I like it the next time.
The trouble with a lecture is that it answers questions that haven’t been asked.
While leadership is important, just as important is how leadership is communicated. On the one hand, you can command good performance from someone in exchange for not firing them. On the other hand, you might be able to ignite the desire in a person to perform well by tuning in to their state of mind.