The more balanced your life is and the more diverse your interests are, the better your thinking will be. If you work 20 hours a day, your product will be crap
– George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research Inc. in an article in Fast Company
Category: Quotes
Lots and lots of great quotes
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Guru meditation
Following my tradition of taking weird courses, I took a meditation course last weekend, and for the first time ever I actually had a feeling that I was meditating rather than just sitting with my eyes closed. So I’m going to meditate twice daily for a time, just to see how it works for me.
Pop quiz: Which popular home computer signalled system crashes with the error message “Guru meditation”?
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Money makes life easier in all the obvious ways. There’s definitely some things in it. But it does not bring you happiness, in no way shape or form. It can hurt people too. You know, if you don’t have a clear idea of who you are and what you are, and why you’re here. So money can be deadly. It can divide people. And it can make people very greedy. It can have many different effects on people. You can have money and just be really thankful, and do positive things. Or you can have money and waste it all, and die of an overdose. You know, because you don’t know who you are.
– Jennifer Aniston
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
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It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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The decisive question for man is: Is he related to the infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.
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Chaordic leadership
While going through my bookmarks, I came across this article, where Dee Hock, the founder of VISA, explains his ideas of chaordic organization and leaderhip.
Here’s a sample from the article, that talks about when organizations achieve peak performance:
Every choreographer, conductor, and coach — or for that matter, corporation president — has tried to distill the essence of such performance. Countless others have tried to explain and produce a mechanistic, measurably controlled process that will cause the phenomenon. It has never been done and it never will be. It is easily observed, universally admired, and occasionally experienced. It happens, but cannot be deliberately done. It is rarely long sustained but can be repeated. It arises from the relationships and interaction of those from which it is composed. Some organizations seem consistently able to do so, just as some leaders seem able to cause it to happen with consistency, even within different organizations.If this speaks to you, then you need to read Dee Hocks book “birth of the chaordic age”.
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That’s hard ta say,” said the little chief. “Ya can’t never predict what old Coyote will do. Just about everything that could turn out two ways or more was invented by him, back when he Changed the world the first time. Before that, as ya may or may not know, everything could only turn out one way. There weren’t no crossroads, fer instance. Only straight paths that didn’t bend. Toss a coin, it always came up heads. And nobody died. That’s one o’ the things Coyote changed. He brought the wobble inta the world. Everything that turns out one way but could just as easy turn out the other. Good or bad. Dead or alive. Hungry or with yer belly nice and full.
– Michael Chabon in his brilliant new book Summerland
