Continuing to function under the illusion that we can understand and foresee exactly what will be relevant to whom is hubris. It might feel safe, but it is the opposite. Functioning safely in an interdependent environment requires that every team possess a holistic understanding of the interaction between all the moving parts. Everyone has to see the system in its entirety for the plan to work.
Wise Words: Hal Borland: Old West
[I grew up] in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still heard echoes and already saw shadows, on moonlit nights when the coyotes yapped on the hilltops, and on hot summer afternoons when mirages shimmered, dust devils spun across the flats, and towering cumulus clouds sailed like galleons across the vast blueness of the sky. Echoes of remembrance of what men once did there, and visions of what they would do together.
Wise Words: Tyrone Guthrie
We are looking for ideas that are large enough to be afraid of.
Wise Words: David Clarke
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
Wise Words: Robert M. Pirsig
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Wise Words: John Muir: nature
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
Wise Words: Antonio Machado
Walker, there are no paths, only windrows on the waves.
Wise Words: Claude Pepper
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Wise Words: Neil Gaiman
“I think the whole world’s gone mad.”
“Nah. It’s always been like this. You just don’t get out much.”
Wise Words: Jean-Luc Godard
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
