The system manufactures students who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.
~ William Deresiewicz
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A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
~ Peter Drucker
The spontaneous individual optimization that drives the theories with which I began is important, but it is not enough by itself. If spontaneous Coase‐style bargains, whether through laissez-faire or political bargaining and government, eliminated socially wasteful predation and obtained the institutions that are needed for a thriving market economy, then there would not be so many grossly inefficient and poverty-stricken societies.
― Mancur Olson
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~ George Orwell
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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, — the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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