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.
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself
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.
If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
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.
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.
No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.