"The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span."

-- Alex Tabarrok

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.”
“No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.”
“Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.”
“The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.”
“Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing, and that the principle should be applied to individual acts. Indeed, this version is often called "classical utilitarianism" and attributed to Bentham and sometimes even to Mill. Rather than a "classical" view it is a recent construction foisted on to the tradition.”
“As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.”
“I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.”
“In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.”

Source : Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer

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