"If you can't measure it, you probably can't manage it Things you measure tend to improve."

-- Ed Seykota

“There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
“We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.”
“Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2004). “Dynamite Road”, p.92, Forge Books
“It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.”
“The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.416, A&C Black
“In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.”
“My dancers are the real stars,”
“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

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