Signals Quotes

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not that one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.”
― Pippa Malmgren, Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy

“The young have a distinct advantage when it comes to innovation. They do not yet know what is impossible.”
― Pippa Malmgren, Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy

“Action Bias Among Elite Soccer Goalkeepers: The Case of Penalty Kicks’. Thompson reported: The academics analysed 286 penalty kicks and found that 94 per cent of the time the goalies dived to the right or the left – even though the chances of stopping the ball were highest when the goalie stayed in the centre. If that’s true, why do goalies almost always dive off to one side? Because, the academics theorised, the goalies are afraid of looking as if they’re doing nothing – and then missing the ball. Diving to one side, even if it decreases the chance of them catching the ball, makes them appear decisive. ‘They want to show that they’re doing something,’ says Michael Bar-Eli, one of the study’s authors. ‘Otherwise they look helpless, like they don’t know what to do.’16”
― Pippa Malmgren, Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy