“Always gift people in the currency they value.”
– Unknown
Books – Neil Gaiman
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
– Neil Gaiman
Direction – Dr. Seuss
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
– Dr. Seuss
Vision – Carl Jung
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
Great arguments – Adam Grant
“The highest form of debate isn’t about one person declaring victory. It’s about both people making a discovery.
The goal isn’t to defend your reasons and attack theirs. It’s to sharpen your reasoning.
Good arguments shift what you think. Great arguments change how you think.”
– Adam Grant
Pain – James Baldwin
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin
Knowing something – Richard Feynman
“There’s a huge difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.”
– Richard Feynman
Terms – T.S. Eliot
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
– T.S. Eliot
Mistakes – James Joyce
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce
Uncertainty – Tim Ferriss
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
– Tim Ferriss
No one loves – Aristotle
“No one loves the man he fears.”
– Aristotle
Love – Albert Camus
“It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
– Albert Camus
Loved – Freud
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”
– Freud
Understand – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every man hears only what he understands.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character – Aristotle
“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”
– Aristotle