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David Brooks

"Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people donâ€™t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments."

Source : David Brooks (2015). “The Road to Character”, p.109, Random House

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“In general, workers under 35 highly value Millennials' ability to relate, be helpful, be open-minded, and be understanding. Employees over 35 appreciated their energy, enthusiasm, open-mindedness, fresh perspective, and understanding of new technologies. It is interesting, in my early research, Millennials entering the workforce reported advantages they claimed to have in the workplace. The advantages turn out to be strengths that are recognized in them as managers.”
“Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.”
“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
“What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.”
“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”
“A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.”

Source : 1982 Reply to a tribute from the Directors Guild of America. Reported in Variety, 26 Apr.
“Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.”

Source : Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”

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