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[edit] Commitment
[edit] Failure
[edit] Master Game
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Leonardo DaVinci-Resume
- With hindsight, the pathway to the solution of every problem is rational, logical - even obvious, and often elegant. The process to get to a solution is not. Creatives and problem solvers love the process of inventing and discovering - for them the journey is more stimulating and rewarding than the story after the fact - no matter how inspiring and instructive. LPR
[edit] About Ideas
- One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Elizabeth Bowen
- Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier.
- The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Ideas move fast when their time comes. Carolyn Heilbrun
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas. Victor Hugo
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche
- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw.
[edit] On Personal Transformation – the place for leaders to start
- If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary process of perfecting himself. Robertson Davies
- Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible. Mohandas Gandhi, who also said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is one’s self. Aldous Huxley
- If there is anything that we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung
- If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. Socrates
- Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
[edit] On Generosity
- You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus
- Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. Frank A. Clark
- That’s what I call true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." Simone de Beauvoir
- The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. Mohandas Gandhi
- Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann
- Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. Marya Mannes
- Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. Albert Schweitzer
[edit] From the Good and the Great
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic
- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything
- It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively
- All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door
- Trickle-down theory—the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows
- John W. Gardner
- Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well
- We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems
- If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are
- Life is the art of drawing without an eraser
- Art gropes, it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce
- Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure, and separates the victim from reality
- Benedict Spinoza
- Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious
- Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world
- Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."
- The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak
- I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them
