

“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”
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“The difference between the good and the great is the difference between your mindset and your skill set. In a world where skills are bountiful, and increasingly outsourced to cheaper parts of the world, we need more than skills to survive, let alone thrive. Mindset separates the best from the rest: the right mindset drives the right habits, which drive the right performance.”
― The Mindset of Success: From Good Management to Great Leadership
― The Mindset of Success: From Good Management to Great Leadership

“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space

“(...) even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.”
― The Sublime Object of Ideology
― The Sublime Object of Ideology

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. I wasn’t interested in slotting myself into a passive role, waiting for Barack’s team to give me direction. After coming through the crucible of the last year, I knew that I would never allow myself to get that banged up again.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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