“Society puts too much emphasis on academic excellence forgetting there’s a real world outside the classroom. Measuring intelligence through ‘one size fits all’ is limiting and sometimes those who fall by the wayside can be the most important of them all”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Don't fear the disruptors; embrace them. Collaborative competition is the key to unlocking innovation and achieving lasting success.”
“Whenever victory gets close, the crowd throws a disruption party. I don’t RSVP. Beast mode eats chaos for breakfast. Step out and execute — shine Klassikan, shine!”
Source: Klassik Era: The Genesis
“When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?”
Source: Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
“Life is all arrivals and departures.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hated us for going traveling in the first place, even if they left us last June or died twelve and a half years ago, it is impossible not to experience a shiver of a sense that they may have come along anyway, just to surprise us and make us feel special (as someone must have done for us when we were small, if only occasionally, or we would never had the strength to make it this far).”
Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
“Mi accorsi che già nel dire guadagnare e perdere c'è un senso economico tutto occidentale dell'andare in montagna, dove quota e distanza sono i capitali che accumuliamo con la nostra fatica, e non ci piace per nulla sprecare l'investimento.”
Source: Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
“BEING LATE
From where do simplicity and ease
In the movement of heavenly bodies derive?
It is precision.
Sun is never late to rise upon the Earth,
Moon is never late to cause the tides,
Earth is never late to greet the Sun and the Moon;
Thus, accidents are not accidents
But precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
Love is almost never simple;
Too often, feelings arrive too soon,
Waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
I wanted, too, to be simple and precise
Like the Sun,
Like the Moon,
Like the Earth
But the Earth was booked
Billions of years in advance;
Designed to meet all desires,
All arrivals, all sunrises, all sunsets,
All departures,
So I will have to be a little bit late.”
“When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time