Quotes

 

The work will teach you how to do it.
- Estonian proverb





 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing.    - David Allen

 We are all viewing ourselves in the fun house mirror.
- John Ortberg



 In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus


 Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
- Ogden Nash

 

 Tanmay Vora has written 12 lessons on life and leadership from photography. An excerpt:

Someone said, “To photograph a bird, you need to be a part of the silence.” Photography teaches me to remain silent and immerse myself in the current moment. Only then, the magnificent reveals itself.

 Will 23rd-century historians look back on today's fiscal follies with the same mixture of bemusement and disdain with which we now view the financial affairs of 18th-century French kings?   -- - Kenneth Rogoff






 Wisdom is the ability to see the long-run consequences of current actions, the willingness to sacrifice short-run gains for larger long-run benefits, and the ability to control what is controllable and not to fret over what is not. Therefore the essence of wisdom is concern with the future. It is not the type of concern with the future that the fortune teller has; he only tries to predict it. The wise man tries to control it.

- From A Concept of Corporate Planning by Russell L. Ackoff


 Our dream was simple: send IBM back to the typewriter business holding its Selectric typewriter balls. We were members of the Macintosh Division of Apple Computer. This means we were the handpicked soldiers of Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer.
- From How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit by Guy Kawasaki

Serial Multitaskers

 Prof David Sanbonmatsu, who co-wrote the paper published in the Public Library of Science Journal, said: "What is alarming is that people who talk on cell phones while driving tend to be the people least able to multitask well."

Read the rest of The Telegraph article here.









 Source:
Execupundit.com

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