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“Candor isn’t cruel. It does not destroy. On the contrary, any successful feedback system is built on empathy, on the idea that we are all in this together, that we understand your pain because we’ve experienced it ourselves.”
-Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
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Space to think
“Thing is, not only is the news all the bloody same, all about the same country and the same handful of main characters, and every news service reports all the incremental updates to the same bloody stories every sixty seconds: but that constant battering tide of zone-flooding shit compresses time and shrinks space to think.“
-Warren Ellis
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I quote my father to people almost every day.
“I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can’t help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.”
-Randy Pausch
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“Some men have shrunk so far into dark corners that objects in bright daylight seem quite blurred to them.”
-Pomponius
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“The moment you rigidly follow a plan set in your youth, you lock yourself into a position, and the times will ruthlessly pass you by.”
-Robert Greene
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The young king from Gilgamesh is in my thoughts this morning:
“He will face a battle he knows not, he will ride a road he knows not.”
“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
-Charles Bukowski
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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”
-Steve Jobs
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“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”
-Seymour Cray
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
-Albert Schweitzer
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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
-Oscar Wilde
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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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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
-General George S. Patton
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”Humanity always reenacts the same bildungsroman. All the principles you learn through your struggles today had been written down by the ancients thousands of years ago.”
-Ken Liu
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“If there are no words for certain concepts, we tend to not think of them.”
-Robert Greene
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“The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be.”
-Eric Schmidt
(I’m not 100% in agreement but do like the sentiment about embracing creative reinvention)
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“If I knew where I was going, I wouldn’t go there.”
-Frank Gehry
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“A tendency to get married to positions. There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists—or anyone.”
-Nassim Taleb
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“Everything in nature has a structure, a way that the parts relate to one another, which is generally fluid and not so easy to conceptualize. Our minds naturally tend to separate things out, to think in terms of nouns instead of verbs. In general you want to pay greater attention to the relationships between things, because that will give you a greater feel for the picture as a whole.”
-Robert Greene
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Learning from others’ mistakes…
“War is fraught with random dangers and careless missteps. Clear orders and relentless rehearsals based on intelligence and repetitive training build muscle—not once or twice, but hundreds of times. Read history, but study a few battles in depth. Learning from others’ mistakes is far smarter than putting your own lads in body bags.“
-General Jim Mattis
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