Robert K. Greenleaf
A mathematical solution is called beautiful when it penetrates the unknown, opens up new insights, advances knowledge… “Ludwig, what has happened? We don’t understand you any more.”…
Too many able young people entering business today stumble on their first jobs because they are so preoccupied with… Listening in an attitude, an attitude toward other people and what they are trying to express… (whole paragraph)
So the medical school decided that doctors in training should be taught to listen…(whole paragraph).
Humor. “True humor,” said Thomas Carlyle, “springs more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love…” Tolerance. I use the word in an older meaning – the ability to bear suffering with serenity.
In these two poems Robert Frost states… I assume that you are resolved to use your lives well and to contribute more than you take out of life because…
As John Gardner put it recently, we do well at growing critics and experts, but we do not produce enough people for the responsible roles.
Let me urge, then, while you are young and your lifestyle may still be formed by conscious choices…