“The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.” FeelsHumansSelfMatterHardDoneEasyHonestHuman NatureLike YouNo Matter WhatBlameHungerCriticalThirstBrutally Honest Author:Kobe Bryant
“Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.” MenHumansVirtueHonestDangerousHuman NatureWeakDancerRopeEquilibriumHonest Man Author:Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
“The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.” ThinkingMenHumansIdeasCharacterBeautifulWrittenHonestHuman NaturePaperBlankSheetsCultImplicationsMaoBlank PaperTabula Rasa Author:Theodore Dalrymple