Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. . . It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.
Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.
Life is not going to be sweet all the time.