A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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Point of view →
Childhood’s end →
When I was a child I wanted to be an architect, and now that I am an architect I would sometimes like to be a child again.
~ Federico Babina
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Flexibility →
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~ Brian Greene
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Improvement →
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Distraction →
The defenders of our freedom have failed to take into account our infinite appetite for distraction.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Lists →
To-do lists tend to be long; Success lists are short. One pulls you in all directions; The other aims you in a specific direction. One is a disorganized directory and the other is an organized directive. If a list isn’t built around success, then that’s not where it takes you. If your to-do list contains everything, then it’s probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.
~ Gary Keller
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Converse →
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
~ R. W. Emerson
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Stick →
Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there.
~ Josh Billings
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Self →
I should not talk so much about myself if there was anybody else whom I knew so well.
~ H. D. Thoreau
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Separation →
[O]ne of the most fundamental struggles for any leader—in business, in organizations, or in public life—stems directly from the separation that most of us feel between who we are as people and what we do as practical professionals.
~ William Isaacs
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