Posts Tagged ‘quote’

Monday, June 17, 2013

I spent the majority of my Sunday working on a task that was unappealing, utterly back-breaking, and altogether disgusting. It took hours and hours of my time and by the end I was spent. But, too, I was mesmerized once again by the special satisfaction that comes only with seeing a project through to it’s end. Somewhere

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Yesterday I was listening to someone describe his ultimate career vision. He possessed no real clarity about what the precise structure of it would be, he had, at best, only a general concept of the activities the entity would engage in, and he had no sense of the actionable steps required to bring this firm

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Monday, April 22, 2013

A little while ago I wrote a meditation about seeing with new eyes, in which I suggested that when we let ourselves “get used to” the sights of our life, we reach a point when, in essence, we can no longer really see them. We just know them. Familiarity lends itself to a particular blindness,

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