"True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do."

-- Mason Cooley

#Self Quotes #Doe Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.”
“Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.”
“We are the slaves of slaves”
“What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.”

Source : Walter Kiechel (2013). “Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World”, p.13, Harvard Business Press
“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”
“I'm a real home girl.”
“I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.”
“Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.”

Source : Song: Love Doesn't Ask Why, Album: The Colour Of My Love, 1993

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