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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d7c51e8 | Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes is something few people feel they have to do. But in truth, outcome thinking is one of the most effective means available for making wishes reality. | David Allen | ||
| e7bc410 | 1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do. | David Allen | ||
| 9949747 | An infinite number of things in the universe are held back from you only by your altitude and attitude. | David Allen | ||
| 5e510c2 | It's the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course--sometimes in major, but consistently in minor, ways. | David Allen | ||
| 2b2d7f3 | Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is, | David Allen | ||
| 73e7875 | recent IBM poll of fifteen hundred CEOs identified creativity as the number-one "leadership competency" of the future." | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 3c5c372 | Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 2d886e1 | Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| cdef6df | Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 3a0a021 | This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| dc7cb7a | It turns out that for most people who have chronic diseases with deferred consequences, "improve my financial health" is a much more pervasively experienced job than "maintain my physical health." | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| a5903f4 | As you go through your career, you will begin to find the areas of work you love and in which you will shine; you will, hopefully, find a field where you can maximize the motivators and satisfy the hygiene factors. But it's rarely a case of sitting in an ivory tower and thinking through the problem until the answer pops into your head. Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What's im.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| c180475 | Disruptive innovations, in contrast, don't attempt to bring better products to established customers in existing markets. Rather, they disrupt and redefine that trajectory by introducing products and services that are not as good as currently available products. But disruptive technologies offer other benefits--typically, they are simpler, more convenient, and less expensive products that appeal to new or less-demanding customers.3 | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| cc2a320 | In the words of Andy Grove: "To understand a company's strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they will do.".... Here is a way to frame the investments that we make in the strategy that becomes our lives: we have resources - which include personal time, energy, talent and wealth - and we are using them to try to grow several "businesses" in our personal lives... How should we devote our resources to these pursuits.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 29606b2 | Necessity remains the mother of invention. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| ed0118f | My purpose in writing this book is simply to offer my witness that being a member missionary can be a source of deep happiness. It need not be hard. You will pull wonderful friends into your life because they will be able to feel your love for them when you invite them to learn more about their Heavenly Father. And every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Sav.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 6d23bcb | cost reductions meant survival, but not profitability, | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 2f03fc1 | Her courage, after all, was only a determination to survive. The | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| b9a7abd | Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him strangers will bear report to the whole wide world, and distant men will praise him. - Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364) | kindness legacy meaning-of-life penelope remembrance respect success | Robert Fitzgerald | |
| 676cac9 | Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 3421caa | There's something about other people isn't there?--you'd like to know who they are?--you'd like to be them, maybe? People you never saw before and"--my voice lifting in excitement, "it's so strange how they're different from you, isn't it?--or like if somebody had the power, say somebody said to you, 'would you change places with the next person you see, a stranger just turning a corner,' I'd say, 'Hell yes." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8b30c90 | FOXFIRE NEVER SAYS NEVER! By the time the kidnapped turquoise-and-chrome car overturns--turns and turns and turns!--in a snow-drifted field north of Tydeman's Corners Legs Sadovsky will have driven eleven miles from Eddy's Smoke Shop on Fairfax Avenue, six wild miles with the Highway Patrol cop in pursuit bearing up swiftly when the highway is clear and the girls are hysterical with excitement squealing and clutching one another thrown fro.. | drama foxfire | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 1078a5c | The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| b05e93a | O.K. he's crazy. But he's a saint too." "He scares me, I don't like him." "He scares me. What the hell-he knows." "Yeah? Why? What does he know?" "--Things most people'd have to die and go to Hell for, to know." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 842dc83 | for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| eb5d609 | Fortunately, the clinical diagnosis "ADD" didn't exist when I was a child, and restless children were not medicated, or I might have been narcotized at an early age, and my brain affected. (No one can tell me that dosing young children with such powerful drugs will have no long-term effect upon them.)" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| d49420a | Our house was made of stone, stucco, and clapboard; the newer wings, designed by a big-city architect, had a good deal of glass, and looked out into the Valley, where on good days we could see for many miles while on humid hazy days we could see barely beyond the fence that marked the edge of our property. Father, however, preferred the roof: In his white, light-woolen three-piece suit, white fedora cocked back on his head, for luck, he spe.. | planned-community | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 07d025b | Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. "Pa?" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 6941be3 | The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| fe2d3ab | It was a very American story, somehow. 'Lost.' Each community had such stories. Possibly, each family. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 6ecbadb | Our lives are Mobius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| fc6fb27 | Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 101a6c5 | On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| bf4f638 | You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are! | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| aee6bb4 | It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 7f543e3 | These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 4871ed3 | Laughter too depends upon memory--a memory of previous laughter. Dr. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| bfe0c96 | This determination to manage--to cope--to do as much unassisted as possible--is the Widow's prerogative. You might argue that it's a sign of her wish to appear to be--which is not the same as being--self-sufficient; or you might argue that it is a symptom of her derangement. But then, in the early minutes/hours/days of Widowhood--what is not, if examined closely, a symptom of derangement? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 74731fe | Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could not bear to live without Mom and Dad--I could not bear to "outlive" them--for to be a daughter without parents did not seem possible to me." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0300d63 | A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 853078e | There could be no romance in the terrible possibility that Gretel Nissenbaum had fled on foot, alone, not to her family but simply to escape from her life; in what exigency of need, what despondency of spirit, no name might be given it by any who have not experienced it. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 14ed9bc | Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cfc3ac9 | But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| d17e3a5 | In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else. | Joyce Carol Oates |