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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn’t come from having too much to do; it’s the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“When a culture adopts “What’s the next action?” as a standard operating query, there’s an automatic increase in energy, productivity, clarity, and focus.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“It seems a thousand years since I’ve seen you but I’ve been dreaming of you ever since. Now I’ve found you again I absolutely refuse to let you go.”
― Dennis Wheatley, Contraband

“The gods are being kind to me in my old age. Most beautiful women are either good, stupid or vicious. And you are the marvellous exception. Lovely as a goddess, clever as an Athenian and a bad hat like myself, yet one who still has decent feelings. I’m going to kiss the lips off you once we land in France.”
― Dennis Wheatley, Contraband

“While it’s fun to be near someone interesting for occasional chats, being stuck next to a person who will not stop talking for nine hours is my idea of hell.”
― Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker

“As superficial as public speaking can seem, history bears out that people with clear ideas and strong points are the ones we remember.”
― Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker

“The best teachers use entertainment as a way to fuel teaching, not simply to make their students laugh.”
― Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker

“Expressing ideas is often the only way to fully understand what ideas are, and to know what it is you really think.”
― Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker

“I know it’s cliché, but life is too short to play it safe.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“The primary benefits of becoming an imperfectionist are reduced stress and greater results by taking positive action in more situations. The more fearless, confident, and free a person is, the more they embrace imperfection in their life.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Socrates believed that in order for a person to be wise, that individual must be able to understand himself.”
― Paul Kleinman, Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought

“If you know what matters to you, it’s easier to commit to change. If you can’t identify what matters to you, you won’t know when it’s being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful

“The next time you start to speak out of anger, look in the mirror. In every case, you’ll find that the root of your rage is not “out there” but “in here.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful

“Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful

“As it turned out, heavy metal would repeatedly prove to be best inspired from a distance—where strong impressions, memories, and images were encouraged to run amok in the imagination.”
― Ian Christe, Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

“Customers, after all, are the one thing no business can do without. They are the key to every company’s survival.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“There’s an old adage about making difficult decisions: “When in doubt, go towards the fear.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“When the world is constantly changing, the speed at which you can learn is the only thing that can give you a long-term, sustainable advantage.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Learning is making progress toward a goal, so people need to know what they are shooting for.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Leaders are not good because they are right, they are good because people follow them, and people follow those who are willing to listen and learn.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Companies run on passion, and if you can’t find the passion in the work you’re doing today, then you’re in the wrong place.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Old soldiers never die, you know; they only fade away.”
― Dennis Wheatley, Faked Passports

“To understand this first event, you need to know that we rely on Unix and Linux machines to store the thousands of computer files that comprise all the shots of any given film. And on those machines, there is a command—/bin/rm -r -f *—that removes everything on the file system as fast as it can. Hearing that, you can probably anticipate what’s coming: Somehow, by accident, someone used this command on the drives where the Toy Story 2 files were kept. Not just some of the files, either. All of the data that made up the pictures, from objects to backgrounds, from lighting to shading, was dumped out of the system. First, Woody’s hat disappeared. Then his boots. Then he disappeared entirely. One by one, the other characters began to vanish, too: Buzz, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, Rex. Whole sequences—poof!—were deleted from the drive. Oren”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.”
― Pierre Mornell, Hiring Smart!: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game