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“By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.”
― Daniel Suarez, Influx

“How can you expect to handle the future if you can’t even handle the present?”
― Daniel Suarez, Daemon

“Be patient. Be authentic. And be consistent. The trust will come.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar

“What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position—that driving the train is the way to shape their companies’ futures. The truth is, it’s not. Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“The future is not a destination - it is a direction.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“The door handle is the handshake of the building.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

“Find optimism in the inevitable”
― Rem Koolhaas

“If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.”
― Rem Koolhaas

“The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.”
― Victor Papanek

“The abundance of information and the plurality of worldviews now accessible to us through the internet are not producing a coherent consensus reality, but one riven by fundamentalist insistence on simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics.”
― James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

“If you want people to treat every corporate nickel like it’s their own, then having them stay at the Red Roof Inn sends a better cultural signal than having them stay at the Four Seasons—but if you want them to have the confidence to ask for a $5 million order, the opposite might be true. If you don’t know what you want, there is no chance that you will get it.”
― Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: An expert guide to building your company’s culture

“Second, we assessed how well members worked together now to enhance—rather than undermine—their capability to work together in the future. Effective teams operate in ways that build shared commitment, collective skills, and smart work strategies, and not mutual antagonisms and trails of failure from which little is learned.”
― Ruth Wageman, Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great