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TF: Lack of time is lack of priorities. If I'm "busy," it is because I've made choices that put me in that position, so I've forbidden myself to reply to "How are you?" with "Busy." I have no right to complain. Instead, if I'm too busy, it's a cue to reexamine my systems and rules."
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Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.
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Truth is that which has predictive power.
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Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'"--Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967"
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self-correcting business architecture
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Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first." --Kurt Vonnegut "Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." --W.H. Auden"
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Many of the one-liners teach volumes. Some summarize excellence in an entire field in one sentence. As Josh Waitzkin (page 577), chess prodigy and the inspiration behind Searching for Bobby Fischer, might put it, these bite-sized learnings are a way to "learn the macro from the micro." The process of piecing them together was revelatory. If I thought I saw "the Matrix" before, I was mistaken, or I was only seeing 10% of it. Still, even that..
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Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?"
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just like most nightmares, it's not that big a deal and is reversible.
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case--a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
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Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?
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He had realized something while arcing in slow circles toward the earth--risks weren't that scary once you took them. His
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. --COLIN WILSON,
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a Harvard M.B.A. and can help you. You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. In no time, you could buy several boats with the increased haul. Eventually, you would have a fleet of fishing boats." He continued, "Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would sell directly to the consumers, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would n..
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Newt Gingrich is one of the most successful political leaders of our time. Yes, we disagreed with virtually everything he did, but this is a book about strategy, not ideology. And we've got to give Newt his due. His strategic ability--his relentless focus on capturing the House of Representatives for the Republicans--led to one of the biggest political landslides in American history. Now that he's in the private sector, Newt uses a brillian..
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. --OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist
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Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.
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Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.
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As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind.
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As William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace," has said: "The future is already here--it is just unevenly distributed."
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Does history record any case in which the majority was right? --Robert Heinlein
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As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
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Named must your fear be before banish it you can. --YODA, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. --ANATOLE FRANCE, author of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. --ANNIE DILLARD, winner of Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, 1975
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Fat-loss can produce transient elevated triglycerides (as it did with my dad, who lost 70+ pounds of fat), and I had lost substantial bodyfat in the preceding 21 days.
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Step III: A is for Automation SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. --STAR TREK
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. --WILLIAM GIBSON, author of Neuromancer; coined term "cyberspace" in 1984"
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This presents a very curious phenomenon. There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines. If you h..
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First and foremost, there is a difference between being perceived as an expert and being one. In the context of business, the former is what sells product and the latter, relative to your "minimal customer base," is what creates good products and prevents returns."
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You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.
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Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. --OSCAR WILDE
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It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. The first month cost perhaps $200 more than if I had been micromanaging.
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far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both.
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. --BILL GATES
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You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Being busy is not the same as being productive.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. --BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, South African cleric and activist
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OrbiTape One-handed Tape Measure
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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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Siempre que te descubras en el lado de la mayoria, es hora de detenerse a reflexionar.>> MARK TWAIN
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It's not enough to use information for "something"--it needs to be immediate and important."
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