Statesmanship needs to be judged in the management of ambiguities, not absolutes.—Henry Kissinger
"I've just never put a ceiling on my potential," James said. "I always wanted to continue to get better and better and better to a point where I also now can dictate [what] the defense can do. And the defense can't dictate what I'm supposed to do."
"It's very rare to find a person capable of handling his gift. The talent almost always enslaves its possessor, taking him, as it were, by the scruff of the neck and carrying him off far away from his proper path" - Dostoevsky
"Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense."
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”—Ayn Rand
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” —Jung
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”—Da Vinci
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."—Lincoln/JMR
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” — Aldous Huxley
“Well-being is realized in small steps, but it is no small thing”— Xeno
I apply the tools of econometrics a few times a year, but I apply my knowledge of the purpose of my life every day. It’s the single most useful thing I’ve ever learned. I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they’ll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered at HBS. If they don’t figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces.—Clayton Christensen
My races were won before I got to the start line . . . they just knew that I was completely off my rocker. I was not in the same headspace as them—APollo Ohno
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Wisdom doesn't come from experience. It comes from reflecting on experience.
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka
Statesmanship needs to be judged in the management of ambiguities, not absolutes.—Henry Kissinger
"I've just never put a ceiling on my potential," James said. "I always wanted to continue to get better and better and better to a point where I also now can dictate [what] the defense can do. And the defense can't dictate what I'm supposed to do."
"It's very rare to find a person capable of handling his gift. The talent almost always enslaves its possessor, taking him, as it were, by the scruff of the neck and carrying him off far away from his proper path" - Dostoevsky
"Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense."
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”—Ayn Rand
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” —Jung
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”—Da Vinci
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."—Lincoln/JMR
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” — Aldous Huxley
“Well-being is realized in small steps, but it is no small thing”— Xeno
I apply the tools of econometrics a few times a year, but I apply my knowledge of the purpose of my life every day. It’s the single most useful thing I’ve ever learned. I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they’ll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered at HBS. If they don’t figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces.—Clayton Christensen
My races were won before I got to the start line . . . they just knew that I was completely off my rocker. I was not in the same headspace as them—APollo Ohno
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Wisdom doesn't come from experience. It comes from reflecting on experience.
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka