reflection Quotes

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.