#ms

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#existentialism #maxims #schopenhauer #design

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#obstacles #dreams

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process. ↗

— Robert E. Davis

#feedback-control #goals #internal-control-systems #itg #management

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think. ↗

— Walter Moers

#on-fiction #reading #dreams

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#dreams

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#dreams

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#future #dreams

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#dream #imagination #dreams

...try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don't come easily. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#inspirational #dreams

Lothaire said, “I have a much better plan.” “Why help him?” Thad asked pointedly. “When you don’t help anybody else?” Lothaire exhaled ruefully. “Incurable romantic. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#dreams