#open

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #dreams #flying #literature #literature-quotes

Awakened by a thousand dogs, a passing truck, the tailspin of a poisoned mosquito (or, perhaps, merely the silence of my dreams), I had, before remembering who and where I was, seen only that green sun suspended in the firmament of my room (her uterus bottled in preserving fluids) and, through seconds that became millennia, millennia aeons, felt the steadfastness of my orbit around that cold glow of love, a marvelous fatal steadfastness, before my pupils dilated and shadows and unease once more defined reality, the steel box naked but for a mattress and insomnious bugs where I had lived, in a coma of heartbreak and drunkenness, the six months since Primavera's death. ↗

— Richard Calder

#death

I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#aim-high #big-dream #close #compete #competition

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them. ↗

— Jane Austen

#defects #dislike #education #hatred #misunderstanding

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#door #him #imprisoned #inwards #long

「グローバルウェブ」を牽引する第二要素は、欧米に相変わらず根強くある、世界全体への関与の意志です。グーグル中国問題のところでも述べた、ヨーロッパ近代以来のイデオロギーやアメリカ建国以来の思想を体現し、民主主義や資本主義といった自らが信奉する価値観を世界中に普及させようという情熱です。 また、欧米エスタブリッシュメント層の中には、持てる者が持たざる者に手を差し伸べるべきという考え方や「ノーブレス・オブリージ」的な規範で行動する文化も根付いていますが、そういうことがウェブ進化と融合し、本書のテーマであるオープンエデュケーションというムーブメントにも結びついています。[43ページ] ↗

— 梅田望夫

#open-education #education

「グローバルウェブ」を牽引する第一要素は、地球全体をターゲットと自然に考える発想です。２０世紀末までは、グローバルといっても米欧日プラスアルファで１０億人くらいの人口を相手にものを考えればよかったわけですが、今は、中国、インド、ロシア、ブラジルといった新興国群の中間層以上で構成される「次の１０億人」、そしてさらには「残りの４８億人」へと対象を広げていかなければなりません。全世界のインターネット人口は２０１０年中には１９億人とほぼ「次の１０億人」まではカバーされるようになり、未来の成長機会はさらにその先にあります。[42ページ] ↗

— 梅田望夫

#open-education #education

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. ↗

— Malcolm X

#intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #truth #experience

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences. ↗

— Sherrie Eldridge

#open-mindedness #parenting #experience

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience. ↗

— I.B. Opene

#books #ebooks #ike-opene #inspirational #nigeria