the only real way to be free is to have your income completely divorced from your personal brand.
Always apologize, except when you’ve done something wrong.
People who apologise publicly are not sorry for having done something wrong. They are mostly sorry for having being caught. Never apologise publicly.
The bullshitter is faking things.
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
A person who lies is responding to the truth. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth.
Most of the time, what the person really wants is not to tell the lie but to attain the goal. They are therefore not real lies, in his view.
By Harry Frankfurt
A bad idea in support of a worthy goal is still a bad idea
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage
Solzhenitsyn
A rights framework for children
What we need is a movement akin to feminism, but which fights for the rights of the child in and of themselves.
Look at yourself in the mirror and wonder if you would disappoint the person you were at 18, right before people get corrupted by life. Let him or her be your only judge, not your reputation nor wealth, not your standing in the community. If you do not feel ashamed, then you are successful.
Men, on the whole, love to explain how things work, and women love to explain how people work. It’s been like that since forever. And when both are sometimes frankly annoying, the solution has always been to ignore the prattle and continue to love.
Jean-Louis Rheault
the rest operates by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing.
Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.
Consensus among experts is often nothing more than one social approval game in a network of influencers.
William Glasser – Control Theory