Great music is valid metaphysics.

— Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Maybe that’s precisely what quantum physics or metaphysics is telling us. If we exist, that means we’re being watched. There is something or someone that never lets us out of its sight.

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

Particularly when the organization is big, the pressure to run projects the same way everyone else does, so that they look correct even at the expense of being successful, is significant.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

It’s common for new initiatives to fail because existing employees don’t embrace them. But it’s lazy to blame the employees, when they probably had perfectly good reasons to withhold their support.

— Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai, Hack Your Bureaucracy

…how absolutely deranged it was, I now thought, for adults to command, and oppress, and tyrannize a child so, with complete disregard for his human nature. And for what? For some poorly conceived designs they for some reason have on his life! Oh, how many lies they told me about school. How many lies and falsities! From my most tender childhood, I was told (both in school and at home) that my entire life depends on it: that the grades I get in my seventh, eighth, ninth grade classes would determine my entire future. Oh, how many irrational fears they drilled into my mind! That I’d never get into college, that I’d never get a high paying job, unless I worked, and struggled, and crawled through the tunnels of their school curriculum.

— Roman Gelperin, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person