In school, a lot of success is individual: How do I stand out? In life, most success is team-based: How can we work together? Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ Auguste Comte
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The quintessential Levy subject is a member of the intelligentsia, a historian studying male tyrants, a poet, a doctoral student in anthropology. These characters are 21st-century Herzogs, who can’t help but channel their neuroses through the prism of their intellectual fixations.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.
~ Mark Lilla
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If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable.
~ Rollo May
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