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William Deresiewicz Quotes

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it Picture Quote #1

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan Picture Quote #1

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts Picture Quote #1

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition Picture Quote #1

There’s no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they’d introduced me, I saw that there’s a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don’t. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk Picture Quote #1

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself Picture Quote #1

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If you’re oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you’re going to hurt them Picture Quote #1

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them Picture Quote #1

Don’t play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else’s. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person Picture Quote #1

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself Picture Quote #1

People don’t mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out Picture Quote #1

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty Picture Quote #1

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But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it (William Deresiewicz Quotes) Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. (William Deresiewicz Quotes) If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts (William Deresiewicz Quotes) Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition (William Deresiewicz Quotes) There’s no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they’d introduced me, I saw that there’s a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don’t. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk (William Deresiewicz Quotes) Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself (William Deresiewicz Quotes) If you’re oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you’re going to hurt them (William Deresiewicz Quotes) People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them (William Deresiewicz Quotes) Don’t play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else’s. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person (William Deresiewicz Quotes) Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself (William Deresiewicz Quotes) People don’t mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out (William Deresiewicz Quotes) We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty (William Deresiewicz Quotes)