Born on June 20 — Quotes

most businesses are operated according to what the owner wants as opposed to what the business needs.

Survival

Everyone you love
is capable of doing
great and terrible things
things you never
thought they could do
when they are clawing,
panicking,
breaking
to survive.
Remember this
when you watch them
at their very worst moments,
And forgive them
their survival too.

And, if it’s true what Don Juan said in Tales of Power, that “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse,

In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency …and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving — from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

I got someone waiting at home for me
staring out the door
and I'll wanna stay in the zone till three
all those calls ignored
tomorrow she'll probably disown me
happy no more
keep falling into shadows.
I'm playing in the shadows all night long
So good to play with bad girls (I'm still young)
They keep on saying hello I know what they want
You'll find me in the shadows

There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.

And that is the sign of a Mature company. A Mature company is started differently than all the rest. A Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

a business that ‘gets small again’ is a business reduced to the level of its owner’s personal resistance to change, to its owner’s Comfort Zone, in which the owner waits and works, works and waits, hoping for something positive to happen.

The Entrepreneur is our creative personality — always at its best dealing with the unknown, prodding the future, creating probabilities out of possibilities, engineering chaos into harmony

LA PERSPECTIVA E-MYTH El conocimiento y la conciencia son similares en sus esferas respectivas. El uno se encuentra en el centro intelectual; la otra, en el centro emocional. El conocimiento es saber. La conciencia es sentir. MAURICE NICOLL Comentarios psicológicos

I traveled a lot around the country in those first years working as Vice Minister of Culture and I witnessed that the cultural and artistic explosion that took place in Nicaragua right after the Revolution had no precedent: it was like a renaissance and rebirth of all of the cultural richness which had once been oppressed and buried under the weight of the Somocista dictatorship.

Lately, I'm shedding my
snakeskin
You know I've been
changing
for you lately
It's time to make a fresh start
It's time to make a fresh start

And they didn't spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn't appreciate you.

In response to a painted sign in a local school stating - Rich People Fly with Money - Poor People fly with education - Xanana said “Yes you are right ‘Rich people fly with money’ but you are wrong because ‘Poor people walk with poverty’”. - 28th October 2023