quotes

Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

MIT OpenCourseWare • How to Speak

From Patrick Winston’s How to speak session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=925s

"So I’m on this plane and I’m reading the scene and, all of a sudden, I just started bawling," Hugh says. "It’s a sad scene, but more than that, it was the shock of recognition. I did not live in 1930s Korea and yet, when I read that scene about Yangjin going to the rice merchant, I felt like I experienced it in my bones."

Alex Sujong Laughlin • 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea

Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko

“A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.” - Charles F. Kettering

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

— Cormac McCarthy

We look at the world once, in childhood.

The rest is memory.

— Louise Gluck

"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "

Howard Thurman

Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity

“True nobility is being superior to your former self."