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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Ego, Honest Communication
“Pick up a book on a topic you know next to nothing about. Put yourself in rooms where you’re the least knowledgeable person. That uncomfortable feeling, that defensiveness that you feel when your most deeply held assumptions are challenged— what about subjecting yourself to it deliberately? Change your mind. Change your surroundings… An amateur is defensive. The professional finds learning (and even, occasionally, being shown up) to be enjoyable; they like being challenged and humbled, and engage in education as an ongoing and endless process.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Amateurs vs. Professionals, What Makes Someone A Professional, How To Learn, Work Strategies, Mix It Up, Get Confused
“One must ask: if your belief in yourself is not dependent on actual achievement, then what is it dependent on? The answer, too often when we are just setting out, is nothing. Ego. And this is why we so often see precipitous rises followed by calamitous falls.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Ego
“Success is intoxicating, yet to sustain it requires sobriety. We can’t keep learning if we think we already know everything.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Success, Stop Ego, Keep Learning, Stay Open
“But the question that you have to ask is: Is video the end of the line, right? Is that as good as we can do, in terms of capturing a scene and what someone is experiencing at that point in time? And I think that the answer to that is definitely no, right? Because technology can always get better, we can always do a better job of giving everyone a voice, making it so that everyone can share exactly what they’re thinking.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Here are Mark Zuckerberg’s full remarks about how much he’d like to (literally!) read your thoughts
Tagged: Video, Media Experiences, Facebook, The New New Media
“I'm also curious about whether there is a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about. I bet there is.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Q&A — June 30, 2015
Tagged: Facebook, The Math of Human Relationships, Communicative Algorithms
“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline of text…If I was having a bet I’d say: video, video, video.”
— Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook is predicting the end of the written word
Tagged: Facebook, Video Killed The Radio Star
“As I stood in contemplation of the garden of the wonders of space, I had the feeling that I was looking into the ultimate depths, the most secret regions of my own being; and I smiled, because it had never occurred to me that I could be so pure, so great, so fair! My heart burst into singing with the song of grace of the universe. All these constellations are yours, they exist in you; outside your love they have no reality! How terrible the world seems to those who do not know themselves! When you felt so alone and abandoned in the presence of the sea, imagine what solitude the waters must have felt in the night, or the night’s own solitude in a universe without end!”
— Oscar Milosz, L'amoureuse Initiation
Tagged: Immensity, Transcendence, Get To Know Yourself, Who You Are
“One feels that there is something else to be expressed besides what is offered for objective expression. What should be expressed is hidden grandeur.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: expression, Logic Against Logic, Mysticism, The Secret of Secrecy
“It would be ridiculous, in fact, to ask the dreamer its dimensions.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, Dimensions of the Mind, Imagine Bigger Things