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“Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,”
― John Medina, Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

“Children surrounded by fast-paced visual stimuli (TV, videos, computer games) at the expense of face-to-face adult modeling, interactive language, reflective problem-solving, creative play, and sustained attention may be expected to arrive at school unprepared for academic learning—and to fall farther behind and become increasingly “unmotivated” as the years go by.”
― Jane M. Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

“Neuroplasticity is now thought to include emotional/motivational as well as cognitive circuits. This would mean that a child’s habits of motivation and attitudes toward learning don’t all come with the package, but are physically formed in the brain by experience.”
― Jane M. Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

“even the most “turnedoff” kid has potential—it just takes a lot of time and hard work to reroute those maladaptive connections!”
― Jane M. Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

“if you can help the youngster (or adult!) develop more confidence, positive emotional response, and intrinsic motivation, you may see amazing results, since the brain’s emotional centers are so intimately involved in priming circuits for learning.”
― Jane M. Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

“Certainly, trying to teach the head while ignoring the body and emotions may account for a great deal of school failure.”
― Jane M. Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth ten thousand slides.”
― Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

“There are very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking.”
― Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

“when people believe in your product, they will help you succeed through credible, continuous, and cost-effective proselytization.”
― Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

“But she didn’t say it, she sing it so we know that it’s you. And plenty in the ghetto, in Copenhagen City, in Rema, and for sure in the Eight Lanes sing it too. The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don’t know what to do since when music hit you can’t hit it back.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“anything you want to know about Kingston’s green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley’s lyrics or in Peter Tosh’s but in Marty Robbins’s “Big Iron.” He’s”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Something is really screwy in the world when I’m finding reasons to thank Development and Security in the same day.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“It stands to reason that if it is organized so that it can win, the business wins, too.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Every industry and company that is not bringing software to the core of their business will be disrupted.”
― Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

“we are all lifelong learners who must take risks in our daily work.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Fear the thought that right now, you could be contributing to the oppression of others and you don’t know it. But do not fear those who bring that oppression to light. Do not fear the opportunity to do better.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“If something does not directly differentiate you from your competition and drive business value creation, see if there is an AWS building block that can take care of it for you. There probably is. Then use that building block instead of wasting your time and effort recreating something that is a utility.”
― Jonathan Allen, Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud

“It’s not actually the startups that are disrupting your organization, it’s your customers’ expectations”
― Jonathan Allen, Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud

“If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.”
― Jonathan Allen, Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud

“The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody’s part-time job.”
― Colin Bryar, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

“sound decisions draw from ideas, not individual performance skills.”
― Colin Bryar, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

“If you want to become a software builder, you need to start by changing the mindset of the entire organization.”
― Jeff Lawson, Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century – A Management Playbook for Tech Industry Leadership and Digital Transformation