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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison

“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The teacher who does not respect the student’s curiosity in its diverse aesthetic, linguistic, and syntactical expressions; who uses irony to put down legitimate questioning (recognizing of course that freedom is not absolute, that it requires of its nature certain limits); who is not respectfully present in the educational experience of the student, transgresses fundamental ethical principles of the human condition.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged,”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“It’s in making decisions that we learn to decide.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“The obvious is not obvious. It is constructed”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”
― Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

“Understand that each person in the organization is not just doing a job, but is also being stretched and grown.”
― Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

“a candidate’s demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems is more important than their undergraduate major.”
― Stephen M. Kosslyn, Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education

“you don't have to think about feudalism when you sit down with a client.”
― Therese Huston, Teaching What You Don’t Know

“An emergent approach to strategy requires a large and diverse pool of ideas.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“For both system operation and system change, self-organization is both effective and humane.”
― Mike Burrows, Kanban from the Inside: Understand the Kanban Method, connect it to what you already know, introduce it with impact

“if you look into the reputable scientific research on high self-esteem, you’ll discover that for many people it creates major problems in their lives.”
― Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

“best” means learning, not selling.”
― Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

“We are all creatures of habit, and we will keep doing what we have been doing unless we have that struggling moment.”
― Bob Moesta, Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress

“great salespeople help customers make progress in their lives, on their terms.”
― Bob Moesta, Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress

“We keep trying to sell people the drill, when the reality is, we should be helping them figure out how to drill the hole.”
― Bob Moesta, Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dave Snowden, Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World

“True philosophy is a matter of a little theory and a lot of practice:”
― Massimo Pigliucci, How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

“It is not the globe trotter who knows mankind, but the thinker.”
― Mark Spitznagel, The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World

“We sense that there are important and fulfilling ways we could be spending our time, even if we can’t say exactly what they are—yet we systematically spend our days doing other things instead.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“once “time” and “life” had been separated in most people’s minds, time became a thing that you used”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The trouble with attempting to master your time, it turns out, is that time ends up mastering you.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

“meaningful productivity often comes not from hurrying things up but from letting them take the time they take, surrendering to what in German has been called Eigenzeit, or the time inherent to a process itself.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“there’s no reason to believe you’ll ever feel “on top of things,” or make time for everything that matters, simply by getting more done.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The real problem of time management today, though, isn’t that we’re bad at prioritizing the big rocks. It’s that there are too many rocks—and most of them are never making it anywhere near that jar.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals