“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)” YearsMightMotivationalTurnsWinningGoalViewsEventsTomorrowDistancePracticalsClarityLandscapeFiftyGreat DaySpatialFuture Goals Book:The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.” FactsDreamHandsTurnsPracticeForeverDisciplineToolsDistanceButterfly Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.” MeanEnoughRunningPastTurnsWaitingWonderWorryRocksMissingSeasonsDistanceLikesPushingHorizonFadesBrushesMosesPonderingRushingAdvent Author:Jan L. Richardson
“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.” ThinkingShouldBookUseTurnsDealsCuttingTreeIndustryAmountPaperImpactDistanceMarketingEnormousTraditionalElectricityEcologicalRetail Author:William Gibson
“God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?” ReasonGodTurnsGamesSidesInfiniteDistanceChaosTailsGod ExistsInclineExtremityBeing PlayedWagersHeads Or Tails Author:Blaise Pascal