"The lesson of history is that no one learns."

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Steven Erikson

#Lessons Quotes

“There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.”
“I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.”
“You are a sick freak who should be beaten.”
“There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds." "Um..." Gaston looked at him. "No he won't." "Bet me something." "I don't have anything." Kaldar grimaced. "Pick up that rock." Gaston swiped the rock off the ground. "Now you have a rock. I bet this five bucks against your rock." Gaston grinned. "Deal.”
“Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.”
“"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.19, Shambhala Publications
“O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!”

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