Closed Wedges Quotes

#1. If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

Adam D'Angelo

#3. I would like to think that no one would die anymore
if we all believed in daisies
but the worms know better, don't they?
They slide into the ear of a corpse
and listen to his great sigh.

Anne Sexton

#4. Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...

Eliza Haywood

#5. If you can hit your opponent's nose more than he can hit yours, you too will taste victory.

Derek Landy

#6. I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

John Green

#7. You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you're capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.

Paulo Coelho

#8. It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

Pauline Kael

#9. You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success,
belief is the most crucial.

Dorothy Morrison

#10. In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

Fischer Black