Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. – Seneca
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Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, You play blues. That music is so sad. I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, You didnt play one sad song. – Buddy Guy
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers. – James Humes