“There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not ...” — Sebastian Thrun Quote

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.

I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.

Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.