Citations & Paraphrases – Polojko's Blog!

At once

“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”

– Susan Sontag, At the Same Time, 2009

Thinking

I think, therefore… WTF?!

Shortcut

The problem with writing with AI is that it’s mentally enfeebling – an escalator towards a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs.

– Bret Stephens

Mad

Pascal’s chilling reflection: “Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Luck

As Aristotle somewhere put it: luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow.

Presence

When your brain is constantly occupied with logistics, there isn’t much room left for presence.

– Maia Niguel Hoskin, Ph.D., Medium article

Gap

The true gap of a man is the difference between who he is and who he knows he should be.

– Marcus Aurelius

Growth

Nothing can grow under big trees.

– Constantin Brâncuși

Power

I have a great power of not listening to people.

– Nikola Jokić

Downstream

Only dead fish swim downstream.

– Duško Vujošević, basketball coach