“In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.”
“In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.”
Alexei Maxim Russell
“It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.”
Alexei Maxim Russell, Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes“Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.”
Alexei Maxim Russell“People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.”
Alexei Maxim Russell“The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.”
Alexei Maxim Russell“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”
Alexei Maxim Russell“The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around.”
Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World“If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.”
Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if you are too much of a rugged individualist, it might actually indicate that you are a weak, unreliable character and that you are selfish, in a childish, willful kind of way.”
Alexei Maxim Russell, The Japanophile's Handbook“Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all... they never were impossible.”
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