The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel
A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti
What do Americans look for in a car? I've heard many answers when I've asked this question. The answers include excellent safety ratings, great gas mileage, handling, and cornering ability, among others. I don't believe any of these. That's because the first principle of the Culture Code is that the only effective way to understand what people truly mean is to ignore what they say. This is not to suggest that people intentionally lie or misrepresent themselves. What it means is that, when asked direct questions about their interests and preferences, people tend to give answers they believe the questioner wants to hear. Again, this is not because they intend to mislead. It is because people respond to these questions with their cortexes, the parts of their brains that control intelligence rather than emotion or instinct. They ponder a question, they process a question, and when they deliver an answer, it is the product of deliberation. They believe they are telling the truth. A lie detector would confirm this. In most cases, however, they aren't saying what they mean. -- The culture code.
In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin