"It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life."

-- Alfred Korzybski

#Discovery Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Two Quotes

“Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.”
“Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.”
“I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.”
“You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.”
“People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.”
“There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.”
“Money is a never-ending problem.”
“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

Source : Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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