You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
~ Milan Kundera
Monthly Archives: May 2025
Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
:::
Quote, Unquote
A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique combination of resources that could permit a form to survive there. Forms thus either take advantage of a niche resource space or fail.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
:::
Quote, Unquote
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
~ Marcel Proust
:::
Campus Life at
New York University
Quote, Unquote
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization’s view of its self and its environment.
~ Edgar H. Schein
:::
Campus Life at
Southern Methodist University
Quote, Unquote
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
:::
Quote, Unquote
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace
:::