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| 6ae8954 | Recently, as I was teaching this concept, a CFO--who deals with numbers all the time--came up to me and said, "This is fascinating! I've always seen trust as a nice thing to have, but I never, ever, thought of it in terms of its impact on economics and speed. Now that you've pointed it out, I can see it everywhere I turn. "For example, we have one supplier in whom we have complete trust. Everything happens fast with this group, and the rela.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 1f35207 | Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9a72d7e | In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 7371c62 | It is possible to be busy--very busy--without being very effective. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 32d7087 | If you knew you couldn't fail, what would you give your life to? If you knew you didn't have to work for a living, what would you give your life to? | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| cd1c130 | Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die -- so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind,.. | Dan Millman | ||
| bb476c5 | Windows of opportunity open and then close. By staying in the present, handling what's in front of us, and riding the wave of opportunity when it comes, we follow the natural order of things. | Dan Millman | ||
| 34b7e80 | Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner. | motivational self-help | Dan Millman | |
| 678e892 | the conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world. | Dan Millman | ||
| bbf7dde | you fear death and crave survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul,' you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1ef7c94 | It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow. | Dan Millman | ||
| b88c44f | Even a dark purpose can keep a man alive. | Dan Millman | ||
| b9295fb | There is no need to search . . . achievement leads nowhere . . . makes no difference at all. Just be happy now. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you think. You are already free. | Dan Millman | ||
| 8b620da | Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do. | Dan Millman | ||
| fc0595d | You Don't need a reason to be happy. If you do that reason can be taken away. | Dan Millman | ||
| 7e1191f | A man's character reveals itself most clearly when he makes a choice under pressure. | Dan Millman | ||
| 59364d5 | Stable happiness doesn't come from getting everything we want, because we never will; true happiness comes from wanting whatever we get. | Dan Millman | ||
| 4a9c766 | think of death as a transformation -- a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about. | Dan Millman | ||
| b066cba | You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm. | motivational | Dan Millman | |
| 9ff22d3 | It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice. | Dan Millman | ||
| d4a1120 | To really help people, you first need to understand them--but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage, and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage, in the right place, at the right time. Then your actions will have power. History," he added, "holds many examples of individuals and nations who acted without the wisdom to foresee the consequences" | Dan Millman | ||
| 40c8ac3 | My mind is like a pond without ripples. Your mind is full of waves because you feel separated from, and often threatened by, an unplanned, unwelcome occurrence. Your mind is like a pond into which someone has just dropped a boulder! | Dan Millman | ||
| 49417f5 | Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results. | Dan Millman | ||
| a810bc2 | Stress happens when the mind resists what is. | Dan Millman | ||
| 0f543d0 | Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life. | Dan Millman | ||
| b3bf8d4 | I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by 'arisch'. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5cdf0bb | His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c409903 | cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties," she wrote. They get their order from below; they are learning machines, pattern recognizers--even when the patterns they respond to are unhealthy ones." | Steven Johnson | ||
| e996164 | A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities--capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group. | Steven Johnson | ||
| b6e461f | The first is to embrace--as a matter of philosophy and public policy--the insights of science, in particular the fields that descend from the great Darwinian revolution that began only a matter of years after Snow's death: genetics, evolutionary theory, environmental science. Our safety depends on being able to predict the evolutionary path that viruses and bacteria will take in the coming decades, just as safety in Snow's day depended on t.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| dfdd3a1 | Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 0bfa5af | Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform. | ideas innovation internet | Steven Johnson | |
| 6c65179 | The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge. | invention | Steven Johnson | |
| 5d87e46 | Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 4d83255 | His research led him to one overwhelming conclusion, published in a seminal paper in 1975: big cities nurture subcultures much more effectively than suburbs or small towns. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 3c7fbcc | But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren't storming the gates. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 6877551 | The history of knowledge conventionally focuses on breakthrough ideas and conceptual leaps. But the blind spots on the map, the dark continents of error and prejudice, carry their own mystery as well. How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own disciplin.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| e63d534 | The time travelers are usually adapt at "intercrossing" different fields of expertise. That's the beauty of the hobbyist: it's generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole array of them littering your study or your garage." | Steven Johnson | ||
| 7556af4 | We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion! | cursing profanity self-censorship | David R. Palmer | |
| 0d8853b | Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dulness. Because a bluebottle bangs irrationally against a window-pane, the drawing-room naturalist may forget that under less artificial conditions it is capable of measuring distances and drawing conclusions wi.. | context observation social-skills | Edith Wharton | |
| 018d965 | After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money--both useful things in their way ... | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1594c9a | But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5596f8b | Their voices rose and fell, like the murmuring of two fountains answering each other across a garden full of flowers. At length, with a certain tender impatience, he turned to her and said: 'Love, why should we linger here? All eternity lies before us. Let us go down into that beautiful country together and make a home for ourselves on some blue hill above the shining river'. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 864166f | Her black brows, her reddish-tawny hair and the pure red and white of her complexion defied the searching decomposing radiance: she might have been some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of light. | Edith Wharton |