Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Context: Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Jeff Bezos (1964) American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc.
Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors http://www.geekwire.com/2013/interview-jeff-bezos-explains-amazon-focus-competitors/ 17 September, 2013.
“She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.”
Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist
Source: The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Book XVII, Chapter XXV.
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)
Context: The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”
Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
"About Hodgkin," from Howard Hodgkin Paintings (1995), p. 109
