"Those who enter a new era with size and strength often do not mater it. Those who adapt best to that new age thrive."
-Fareed Zakaria in "The Age of Revolutions". He's comparing the Dutch vs. the Spanish in the early modern era. Earlier he talks about how Venice was an example of moving toward a closed, oligarchic system which led to it's demise from it strong position in the world.
"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair." - Scientist Donella Meadows, h/t the 3-2-1 newsletter from James Clear.
“Leadership is not domination, but the art of persuading people to work toward a common goal.”
Daniel Goleman
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil.
Quoted in The Good Life
"People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.'
-James Baldwin, cited in "There There" by Tommy Orange.
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
-William Arthur Ward (quoted in The Good Life)
