Literary Litter - (48)

“Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions...." - Steven Levitt, Economist

“Before you can be creative, you must be courageous.” - Joey Reiman, CEO, BrightHouse

“If you get your facts wrong, your map will be wrong. If you get the map wrong, you're likely to do the wrong thing.” - Peter Schwartz

“Scenarios transform information into perceptions... It is a creative experience that generates an 'Aha!' ... and leads to strategic insights beyond the mind's previous reach.” - Pierre Wack

“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

“The concept of progress acts as protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.” - Frank Herbert

“Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it."- Evel Knievel

"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's." - Martha Burgess

“True faith is when you believe in a vision and are willing to follow an imperfect person and to tolerate imperfect execution and imperfect results.” - Michael Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy Inc.

“Companies that make the change from good to great have no name for their transformation - and absolutely no program.” - Jim Collins, Author, "Good to Great"

And finally, it’s worth it one more time...

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise what you heard is not what I meant....” - Alan Greenspan




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“The language of Nelson Mandela's tribe, Xhosa, has a word that perfectly sums up the truth of life: Ubuntu.  In English, it translates as "I am because you are."

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Caviar, Ferrari's and Critical Observation...(46)

“What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world around us?” - Frank Herbert

“An assertion that everything necessary must be on the first screen is tantamount to the assertion that all crucial facts of the novel Crime and Punishment must be listed in the first paragraph. (What’s the point in reading it then?) I mean, if your novel is crummy, the first screen won’t help. If it’s the other way round, folks will thumb through it four hundred times and ask for more”. - Roma Voroneshski

“The conundrum for companies is that good products or services aren't enough.” - Chip and Dan Heath. Authors.

“The past is something you can know much about with certainty, but you can’t change it. The future is something you can know little about with certainty, but you can change it.” - Anon

“I once heard an Aboriginal Chief from Canada describing how their language is different in the sense that when they speak, they describe images in order to convey meaning. It got me to start practicing when I talk, in either French or English. I figured if a picture is worth a thousand words and that I learn to use 20, 50 or 100 words to describe a picture that's worth a thousand words, then it means that with every 100 hundred words or so, I end up speaking a thousand white man's words... Isn't that economy at its best?.” - Benoit Couture

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” - Indian Saying

“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.  Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce only friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.  If you find yourself slandering anybody, first imagine that your mouth is filled with excrement.  It will break you of the habit quickly enough.” - Dali lama

“A truly great intellect is one which takes a connected view of old and new, past and present, far and near, and which has an insight into the influence of all these, one on another... It possesses the knowledge, not only of things, but also of their mutual and true relations.” - Fred Scott and Joseph Denney

“To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.' Robert Orben

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends”. - Baltasar Gracian

And finally...

“You do not take from this universe. It grants what it will”. - Frank Herbert




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“So we live in an accelerating possibility curve.  Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.” - Dewitt Jones.

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