Memorable quotes “How many of you have received an honest, straight-between-the-eyes feedback session in the last year, where you came out knowing exactly what you have to do to improve and where you stand in the organization?” On a good day, I get 20 percent of the hands up. Most of the time, it is […]
Tag: 2020
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Memorable quotes The first is ignorance–we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works. There are skyscrapers we do not yet know how to build, snowstorms we cannot predict, heart attacks we still haven’t learned how to stop. The second type of failure the philosophers […]
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Memorable quotes Learn something, and then it’s time to leave. So my new, simple, and regular life began. I got up before five a.m. and went to bed before ten p.m. I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up […]
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Memorable quotes In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if […]
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
Memorable quotes “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time—literally—substantial and rapidly growing […]
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Memorable quotes To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Don’t believe me? Think your idea is worth something? Go and try to sell it, […]
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newpot
Memorable quotes In our current moment, smartphones have reshaped people’s experience of the world by providing an always-present connection to a humming matrix of chatter and distraction. Increasingly, they dictate how we behave and how we feel, and somehow coerce us to use them more than we think is healthy, often at the expense of […]
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Memorable quotes Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything. Ultimately, I don’t determine whether I arrive at the desired professional destination. Too many variables are […]
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Rich Dad’s Retire Young, Retire Rich by Robert Kiyosaki
Memorable quotes That is why so many people say, “When I retire, my income will go down. ” In other words, they are saying, “I plan on working hard all my life and then I will become poorer after I retire. ” Tat may have been an okay plan in the Industrial Age, but that […]