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Scott GallowayThis book was much better than I expected. Written in the author’s “real voice.”
There was no “hidding” in the book, Scott Galloway described events from his life and actions “as-is” without trying to make him look better. That is the honesty I like a lot. There were several moments when I was touched and tears got me.
Real, simple life advice from the American entepreneur/professor in his 50s. Focus on relationships, people, mates, friends, children.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOne of the most beautiful and simple books about life, love, death; about being a child and being an adult; about friendship, people and happiness.
When I was in 10th grade at school, I remember literature teacher was very enthusiastic about this book. She was telling us about it all the time. I didn’t find it interesting back then. I didn’t understand the story about little prince, talking foxes, flowers and snakes. Form didn’t appeal to me and I probably had nothing to learn from it at that time. This time was different. I would recommend this book to everyone. It’s a pure beauty. Just in few pages it shows what is important in life and what is not.
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Don’t neglect life by worrying about death. — I don’t know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die — and I go on, non-stop, going forward [with life]. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I’ve done, I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life.
Bruce Lee -
I was convinced that as long as we live, we must lift ourselves over new thresholds of consciousness; that to aim at higher and higher thresholds is our only happiness. While living in Government-General, I crossed one of those thresholds - when we finally begin to become the person we must be and we are at once inebriated and a little frightened at the enormous distance yet to be travelled.
Czesław Miłosz -
… at it best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living. Such an enterprise is not easy to pursue, since our politicians rarely speak of it, our technology is indifferent to it, and our commerce despises it. Nonetheless, it is the weightiest and most important thing to write about.
Neil Postman -
“People where you live,” the little prince said, “grow five thousand roses in one garden… yet they don’t find what they are looking for… And yet what they are looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water… But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart!”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -
Little Prince: “You confuse everything… You’ve got it all mixed up! … I know a planet inhabited by a red-faced gentleman. He’s never smelled a flower. He’s never looked at a star. He’s never loved anyone. He’s never done anything except add up numbers. And all day long he says over and over, just like you, “I’m a serious man! I’m a serious man!” And that puffs him up with pride. But he’s not a man at all - he’s a mushroom!”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -
… I’m convinced that my existence - like everything that has ever happened - has ruffed the surface of Being, and that after my little ripple, however marginal, insignificant, and ephemeral it may have been, Being is and always will be different from what it was before. All my life I have simply believed that what is once done can never be undone and that, in fact, everything remains forever. In short, Being has a memory. And thus even my insignificance - as a bourgeois child, a laboratory assistant, a soldier, a stagehand, a playwright, a dissident, a prisoner, a president, a pensioner, a public phenomenon, and a hermit, an alleged hero but secretly a bundle of nerves - will remain here forever, or rather not here, but somewhere. But not, however, elsewhere. Somewhere here.
Václav Havel
