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“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Years Made Different Seems Past Interest Existence Events Reflection Flow Pursuit Made It Logical Surroundings Sequence Incarnation Retrospect Dividing

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.”

“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”

Writing Mind Past Skins Metaphor Logical

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.”

Facts Past Leadership Vision Draws Conclusion Experts Logical Assistants Administrators Visions Of The Future

Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett