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“Nejdůležitější věci se odehrají v skrytu, protože tím, jak zůstávají utajeny naší mysli, nad námi získávají moc.”
― Vilma Kadlečková, Jantarové oči

“Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the river. Unslave yourself. Hard work will not lead to health and happiness. Just ask yourself: would you rather spend your child's first few years playing with them or working for the mega-corp in order to make them profits and you money to buy ribbish you don't need in order to dull the pain of overwork?”
― Tom Hodgkinson, The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids

“Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they’re hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.”
― Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

“If you want to learn more about the bad parts and how to use them badly, consult any other JavaScript book.”
― Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.”
― Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“The long-term value of an enterprise is not captured by the value of its products and intellectual property but rather by its ability to continuously increase the value it provides to customers — and to create new customers — through innovation.”
― Jez Humble, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean

“To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Dobrý velitel je takový, který v případě, že se dostane do slepé uličky, vrátí se stejnou cestou.”
― Robert Lyndon

“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“There were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Many growth-minded people didn’t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It’s ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential

“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“Hořící vesnice hřála do zad.”
― Kulhánek Jiří

“„Dělám to hrozně nerad,“ vzepjal jsem se k nadlidskému výkonu a mrštil po ní svou levou paži.”
― Kulhánek Jiří, Noční klub 1

“Pak jsem viděl něco, co asi moc lidí v dějinách planety nevidělo. Bruce Lee by vrátil kimono a odešel do ústraní.”
― Kulhánek Jiří, Noční klub 1

“„O Nočním klubu nesmíš nikdy mluvit s nikým jiným než s členem Klubu nebo s odsouzeným – ve formuli, po níž následuje smrt – to je základní pravidlo,”
― Kulhánek Jiří, Noční klub 1

“I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?"

"I am hope.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“I’ll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye

“Většina lidí žije zcela nevědomě, bez jakéhokoli zájmu o svou existenci.”
― Jan Němec, Dějiny světla

“Mohl jsi odejít kdykoliv, je to tak?" zašeptala Libby.
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"O to těžší bylo tady zůstat, nemyslíš?”
― Vilma Kadlečková, O snovačce a přemyslovi

“If you solve complex technical problems for too long, you will finally become a complex technical problem yourself.”
― Christian Grobmeier