Pivot Quotes

“Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from now, all new people. —Message tacked to a tree by monks at Wat Umong, a 700-year-old temple in Thailand”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“You can learn to enjoy calculated risk and uncertainty in exchange for adventure, flexibility, freedom, and opportunity.”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“the gut contains over 500 million neurons, equivalent in size and complexity to a cat’s brain, and is the source of 90 percent of our body’s serotonin production. The gut-brain is primal, forming in the womb before the heart- and head-brains. It”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The Psychology of Success, discovered in her research that the most successful people are those with a growth mindset”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Travel teaches us to push past our fears, find courage to explore our inner and outer world, and forces us to turn off autopilot.”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist. The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout. The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. Rushing into action”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“The fantasy is that there is org”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“For every opportunity you get”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Individuals have a hard time foreseeing where they will be”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Decisions are data. You can only spin on a set of questions for so long before the better thing to do is to get something in motion”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“If you experience failure fallout”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“most of us fall into one of three relationship types: anxious”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Remember: if you wait too long to pivot”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“More and more what we care about in the second machine age are ideas”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“As Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford commencement speech, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“Eric Ries, author of the business bible The Lean Startup, defines a business pivot as “a change in strategy without a change in vision.”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

“What you can plan is too small for you to live.”
― Jenny Blake, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One