The bottom line is that if you give somebody a standardized test when they are 13 or 18, you will learn something important about them, but not necessarily whether they will flourish in life, nor necessarily whether they will contribute usefully to society’s greater good. Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
~ Milan Kundera
We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live.
~ Jenny Odell
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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I don’t like eloquence. If it isn’t effective enough to pierce your hide, it’s tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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Ask any two managers precisely what they mean by ‘staff’, or ‘decentralization,’ or ‘budget.’ The differences in interpretation will make communication difficult. If we are to develop professional practices of management work, semantics requires first attention.
~ Louis A. Allen
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez — who represents Washington State’s 3rd district in the United States Congress — was born on this day — June 4, 1988 — in Harris County, Texas.
Representative Gluesenkamp Perez attended both Warren Wilson College and Reed College – where she earned a degree in Economics. She lives in Skamania County, Washington.
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There is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means to become an adult.
~ William Deresiewicz
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