Writer + researcher for the forthcoming steaming series #TheLastTrillionaire - Permanent occupant of table 17 @CafeCoupland - Instructor, Gray Cliff College
Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
~ Arthur Koestler
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“It seems a fair test of any political movement to inquire not whether it is capitalist, communist or fascist, but whether it is fundamentally humane.”
~ Max Hastings
“The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.”
~ Max Hastings
Recently observed during a weekend trip to New York City. (Wherein I forgot to pack my toothbrush.)
@GSKUS is now manufacturing toothbrushes in #India - and exporting that production to the United States.
Here is the truth about being the Vice President for Administrative Operations at a place like Grey Cliff College:
If you come into the job at 6'4 - you will leave at 5'8
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"What fascinates me about Van Gogh is that his sun dries up everything. Maybe he was melodramatic, but if you are a painter you have to face that self-consciousness. You get dirty and pathetic; very miserable. It makes me self-conscious to talk about it."
~ Willem de Kooning
"The word abstract comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights they have focused on art. Abstraction was not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint."
~ Willem de Kooning
"When central banks abandon the fight in the face of the looming economic and financial crash – nominal and real borrowing costs will surge. The mother of all stagflationary debt crises can be postponed, not avoided."
~ Nouriel Roubini
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"The world economy is lurching toward an unprecedented confluence of economic, financial, and debt crises, following the explosion of deficits, borrowing, and leverage in recent decades."
~ Nouriel Roubini
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In the long term, organizations may become better versions of themselves while finally living the values they long fought for. In the short term, battles between staff and leadership have sidelined progressive institutions at a critical moment in history.
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