Majicman Notes

Lenin is often credited with coining the term “useful idiot,” poleznyi durak in Russian, meaning one who can be used to spread propaganda without being aware of it or subscribing. Ben Macintyre The Spy and… Read more

Human beings suffer,They torture one another,They get hurt and get hard.No poem or play or songCan fully right a wrongInflicted and endured … History says, don’t hopeOn this side of the grave.But then, once in… Read more

When Eileen Gu says, “You can control how you think, and therefore, you can control who you are,” she makes a bold claim about agency. Identity, she suggests, is not fixed but trained. Just as… Read more

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante Alighieri Read more

In a multi-year study published in Harvard Business Review, Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen examined what truly separates innovative leaders from non-creative professionals. Their conclusion was striking: the defining skill… Read more

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Wilhelm Von Humboldt https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/university/history/wilhelm-von-humboldt Read more

Everything will be all right in the end. If it’s not all right, it is not yet the end…….  Patel, Hotel Manager, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Read more

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it. Hilary Mantel,… Read more

I’m a firm believer that often terror is trying to tell us of a force far greater than despair. In this way, I look at fear not as cowardice, but as a call forward, a… Read more

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent — lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that. Tove Jansson, Fair Play Read more