"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."

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Source : Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

Jules Renard

#Cat Quotes #Animal Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")”
“Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence.”
“Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.”
“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.”
“If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.”
“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”

Source : Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.214, Random House
“Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else”
“Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.”

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