William Deresiewicz Quotes

• Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

  William Deresiewicz

  Art, Adventure, Imagination

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• People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

  William Deresiewicz

  Largo, Gente, Mente

  "What Are You Going to Do With That?". www.chronicle.com. October 3, 2010.

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• Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

  William Deresiewicz

  Significado, Pensamiento, Ideas

  "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2010.

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• People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

  William Deresiewicz

  People, Important, Attention

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.102, Penguin

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• No hay duda: la gente divertida es divertida. Pero finalmente aprendí que hay algo más importante, en las personas que conoces, que si son divertidas. Pensando en esos amigos que me habían dado tanto placer pero que también me habían causado tanto dolor, pensando en ese mundo brillante y cruel al que me habían introducido, vi que hay una forma mejor de valorar a la gente. No como divertidas o no divertidas, o elegantes o no elegantes, sino como cálidas o frías, generosas o egoístas. Gente que piensa en los demás y gente que no. Personas que saben escuchar y personas que sólo saben hablar.

  William Deresiewicz

  Fun, Pain, Selfish

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.100, Penguin

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• Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

  William Deresiewicz

  Surprising, Ifs

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.74, Penguin

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• If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

  William Deresiewicz

  Want, Ifs

  "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 01, 2010.

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• No juegues sobre seguro. Resiste las seducciones de los valores cobardes que nuestra sociedad ha llegado a apreciar tanto: comodidad, conveniencia, seguridad, previsibilidad, control. Esto también son redes. Sobre todo, resiste al miedo al fracaso. Sí, cometerás errores. Pero serán errores tuyos, no de otros. Y los sobrevivirás, y te conocerás mejor por haberlos cometido, y serás una persona más plena y más fuerte.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mistake, Play, Stronger

  "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.

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• We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

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  Errors, Doubt, Trial And Error

  William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

  William Deresiewicz

  Jobs, Feel Good, Being True

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• Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

  William Deresiewicz

  Discovery, Focus, Connections

  William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

  William Deresiewicz

  Exhibitions, Information, Slick

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• If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

  William Deresiewicz

  Hurt, People, Chance

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.28, Penguin

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• As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

  William Deresiewicz

  Thinking, Opposites, Our World

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