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Chris Lavergne

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“"I was really empty, knew nothing, and came from the back woods, relatively speaking, of Indiana and wasn’t terribly bright. But, there were wonderful people in the world who were very bright and knew a lot and I would go around sort of collecting them. These friends that I’ve collected are just amazing. And, they say they got something out of listening to me. It never seemed that way to me. I thought they knew how to do it and I wanted to listen to them. So, there must be a 3rd kind of person who thinks they’re insignificant and are neither willing to stay that way nor think that they could prove otherwise, but are very open to what other people have to offer. That’s how it was with me.”
— Hubert Dreyfus, A person who thinks they’re insignificant...
“I try to not give them any content they can copy or imitate. They can imitate the openness if they can do it, but nothing else. What other risks are there?”
— Hubert Dreyfus, Thursday, October 20, 2005 Hubert Dreyfus Interview
“Heidegger lies notoriously always and everywhere, and whenever he can.”
— Hannah Arendt, No More Heidegger
“Slowing down and merely being with yourself is part of the process of becoming whole again, as it allows you to reflect, realign, and rebirth. You must shamelessly give yourself space for it.”
— Karin Hadadan, Beauty in the Stillness
Tagged: Shop Catalog
“Find out before you flip out.””
— Leslie Higgins, Ted Lasso, Season 3: We'll Never Have Paris
Tagged: Keep Calm
“I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t eat sugar. Only heard about ’em. And they all live in this Godless place called Santa Monica.”
— Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso, Season 2: Lavender
Tagged: Healthy Diets, Sugar
“Within you lives a great vision for your life, quieted over time by the world. It is once again time to listen. It is once again time to live.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Tagged: Shop Catalog, Renewal
“When did Noah build the ark? Long before it began to rain.”
— Peter Attia, Outlive
Tagged: Preventive , Medicine 3.0
“There's no continuum. Current claims and hopes for progress in models for making computers intelligent are like the belief that someone claiming a tree is making progress toward reaching the moon.”
— Stuart Dreyfus, Mind over Machine
Tagged: 2023 AI Thoughts
“It’s funny how when our heart is broken, we think we can just will it to be unbroken. Like if we just tried harder or put forth more effort, we can somehow un- break it and heal ourselves. We would never do this with broken bones or broken objects–we would splint them, cast them, rebuild them, call in the experts. Yet we shame ourselves for our inability to fuse together shards of ourselves without doing the work and call- ing for help. I think this does a huge disservice to our hearts. We deserve to be cared for at a time when we feel broken. We deserve to be wrapped in warmth and support. We deserve to be mended.”
— PARM K.C., You Will Feel Whole Again