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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“A particularly problematic form of avoiding is complaining to a third party instead of to the person with whom you’re upset. It makes you feel better, but puts the third party in the middle with no good way to help. They can’t speak for you, and if they try, the other person may get the idea that the problem is so terrible that you can’t discuss it directly. On the other hand, if they keep quiet, the third party is burdened with only your partisan and incomplete version of the story.”
— Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Tagged: Complaining, Venting
“The Rapture is obviously a cataclysmic event. But I started realizing it was a metaphor for getting older, for mortality, and living with mortality. It’s really powerful. We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Rapture Now, End of the World, Death, Loss
“Talent is the ability to make something that is more stunning than human presence.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: Magic, Art, Creation
“The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind.”
— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Tagged: Ego is the Enemy
“Gardening is an opening of worlds-of worlds within worlds-beginning beginning with the world at one's feet.”
— Robert Pogue Harrison, Gardens
“You’re not going to find many traditional judges who can lead you any longer, since they now wander helplessly, bemused by the willful ignorance of that bizarre twentieth-century organism, the intellectual. You’re going to have to make the crucial judgments yourselves.”
— Tom Wolfe, Way More than Luck
Tagged: Death of God, Death of The Author
“I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Passion, Flash, Meeting Someone, When Words Fail
“All of this is as unsure as writing on water, but water with the azure of reflected possibilities.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Uncertainty, Azure
“I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love…”
— Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Tagged: Love
“Try an experiment in reading: for electricity substitute the Holy Spirit, for medium read God, and for the global village of the screen understand the planet united under Rome.”
— Andreas Huyssen, McLuhan and Baudrillard: Masters of Implosion
Tagged: Media Theology, Three Is The Number, Secularized Theology