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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
-Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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”Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
-Mary Shelley
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
-Ernest Hemingway
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”The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
-Steve Jobs
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”Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads.”
—stefan zweig
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“There are two parts to any failure: There is the event itself, with all its attendant disappointment, confusion, and shame, and then there is our reaction to it. It is this second part that we control.”
-Ed Catmull
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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
-General George Patton
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”No poets celebrate the sewage treatment plants that prevent them from dying of dysentery. Like almost everyone else, they rarely note the existence of the systems around them, let alone understand how they work.”
Charles Mann
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“People connected across groups are more familiar with alternative ways of thinking and behaving,” (Ronald S.) Burt wrote. “The between-group brokers are more likely to express ideas, less likely to have ideas dismissed, and more likely to have ideas evaluated as valuable.”
-Charles Duhigg, “Smarter Faster Better”
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On getting lost during a creative effort
“People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process. It is the nature of things—in order to create, you must internalize and almost become the project for a while, and that near-fusing with the project is an essential part of its emergence. But it is also confusing. Where once a movie’s writer/director had perspective, he or she loses it. Where once he or she could see a forest, now there are only trees. The details converge to obscure the whole, and that makes it difficult to move forward substantially in any one direction. The experience can be overwhelming.”
-Ed Catmull
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”Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
–Steve Jobs
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“We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it. Realizing this frees us to focus on the things that really matter.”
-Clayton Christensen
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“It may seem like most organizations make rational choices based on deliberate decision making, but that’s not really how companies operate at all. Instead, firms are guided by long-held organizational habits, patterns that often emerge from thousands of employees’ independent decisions. And these habits have more profound impacts than anyone previously understood.”
-Charles Duhigg
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“Bureaucracies form when people’s jobs are tied strictly to rules and procedures rather than the effect those things are supposed to have on the world.”
-Scott Berkun
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“Gray hair signals an enhanced ability to survive—conditional on having reached the gray hair stage, a man is likely to be more resistant to the vagaries of life.”
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room for it to grow.”
-Ed Catmull
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“Place a monkey in a cage, and it is the same as a pig, not because it isn’t clever and quick, but because it has no place to freely exercise its capabilities.”
-Huainanzi
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We must acknowledge the random events that went our way
“We must acknowledge the random events that went our way, because acknowledging our good fortune—and not telling ourselves that everything we did was some stroke of genius—lets us make more realistic assessments and decisions. The existence of luck also reminds us that our activities are less repeatable. Since change is inevitable, the question is: Do you act to stop it and try to protect yourself from it, or do you become the master of change by accepting it and being open to it? My view, of course, is that working with change is what creativity is about.“
-Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
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”Adopt this ruthless strategy toward the past: Burn all the books, and train yourself to react to circumstances as they happen.”
-Robert Greene
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“Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today.“
-Peter Thiel
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