“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
Source: The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
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“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”
Source: Short fiction, Fire Watch (1985), The Sidon in the Mirror (p. 161)
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 1; Lead paragraph first chapter on Mechanism, Scarcity, Working Rules
“The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
As cited in: Joel Jay Kassiola (1990) The Death of Industrial Civilization. p. 48
Mankind at the Turning Point, (1974)
“The long-term goal of the Oslo process”
Interview by Yitzhak Laor in Haaretz, December 29, 2000 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20001229.htm.
Quotes 2000s, 2000
Context: The Oslo agreements did represent a shift in U. S.-Israeli policy. Both states had by then come to recognize that it is a mistake to use the Israel Defense Forces to run the territories. It is much wiser to resort to the traditional colonial pattern of relying on local clients to control the subject population, in the manner of the British in India, South Africa under apartheid, the U. S. in Central America, and other classic cases. That is the assigned role of the Palestinian Authority, which like its predecessors, has to follow a delicate path: it must maintain some credibility among the population, while serving as a second oppressor, both militarily and economically, in coordination with the primary power centers that retain ultimate control. The long-term goal of the Oslo process was described accurately by Shlomo Ben-Ami shortly before he joined the Barak government: it is to establish a condition of permanent neo-colonialist dependency. The mechanisms have been spelled out explicitly in the successive interim agreements; and more important, implemented on the ground.
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 36 (p. 487)
“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 53.
Source: Mankind at the Turning Point, (1974), p. 7 As cited in: (1998) The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism, p. 143
quoting F. W. Sanderson, "The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)