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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. ↗

— Robert Musil

#must #possibility #reality #sense

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #first #first time

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. ↗

— Robert Musil

#closer #drew #endless #glittering #like

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#in the past #live #nothing #past #you

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

#cast #existence #good #optical #our

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. ↗

— Elon Musk

#advice #best #better #constantly #could

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email. ↗

— Elon Musk

#email #good #i #i do #love

I've actually not read any books on time management. ↗

— Elon Musk

#any #books #i #management #read