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Quotes tagged “Work Strategies”

“I try to analyze a real situation in its various complexities, with the goal of allowing refusal, and curiosity, and innovation.”
— Michel Foucault, Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual
Tagged: My Philosophy, The Great Game of Filters, Work Strategies, Game Thoughts, Conceptual Disruption, Quote of the Moment
“I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.”
— Walt Disney, The Quotable Walt Disney
Tagged: Aphorisms, Work Strategies
“I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Why I wear the same T-shirt every day
Tagged: Wearing The Same Clothes Over and Over Again, Zuckerberg T-Shirt, Work Strategies, Focus
“Toolkit for clear thinking: Start with the end goal in mind. Think from the perspective of the other person.”
— Carl Pei
Tagged: Clarity, Design, Work Strategies, Thinking Straight, Focus, (Examples of Good Tags)
“What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?”
— Barack Obama, Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview
Tagged: The Long View, Big Picture, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr, Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 suggestions, observations, and reminders on how to live a happy and rewarding life
Tagged: Inspirational, Work Strategies
“All human errors stem from impatience, a premature breaking off of a methodical approach.”
— Franz Kafka, Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Tagged: Error, Impatience, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“Mr. Emanuel, who is now the mayor of Chicago but remains close to the president Obama, said he and Obama once imagined moving to Hawaii to open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white). Their dream was that they would no longer have to make decisions.

During difficult White House meetings when no good decision seemed possible, Mr. Emanuel would sometimes turn to Mr. Obama and say, ‘White.’ Mr. Obama would in turn say, ‘Medium.’”
— Michael D. Shear, Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone
Tagged: Obama, Work Strategies
“Pick up a book on a topic you know next to nothing about. Put yourself in rooms where you’re the least knowledgeable person. That uncomfortable feeling, that defensiveness that you feel when your most deeply held assumptions are challenged— what about subjecting yourself to it deliberately? Change your mind. Change your surroundings… An amateur is defensive. The professional finds learning (and even, occasionally, being shown up) to be enjoyable; they like being challenged and humbled, and engage in education as an ongoing and endless process.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Amateurs vs. Professionals, What Makes Someone A Professional, How To Learn, Work Strategies, Mix It Up, Get Confused
“Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this. I am passing the marshmallow test. I am earning what my ambition burns for. I am making an investment in myself instead of in my ego. Give yourself a little credit for this choice, but not so much, because you’ve got to get back to the task at hand: practicing, working, improving.”
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Tagged: Work, Work Strategies, Self-improvement
“Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Tagged: Focus Mantras, Teleology, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“ Maybe once or twice a year I'll just take a few days off and wander around and ask myself, if I were starting from scratch today, and I weren't running Facebook, what would I build? I look at this mobile trend in light of the law of sharing, our equivalent of Moore's law, which states that the average amount of information that a person shares doubles every year or so. Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, wired.com
Tagged: Facebook, Mobile, Moore's law, Work Strategies
“A famous sonnet by William Wordsworth begins, 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; / And hermits are contented with their cells; / and students with their pensive citadels.' Wordsworth's point is that what nuns, hermits, and students do is facilitated rather than hindered by the confines of the formal structures they inhabit; because those structures constrain freedom (they remove, says Wordsworth, 'the weight of too much liberty'), they enable movements in a defined space. If the moves you can perform are prescribed and limited—if, for example, every line in your poem must have ten syllables and rhyme according to a predetermined pattern—each move can carry a precise significance. If, on the other hand, there are an infinite number of moves to perform, the significance of any one of them may be difficult to discern. (This is one of the insights of information theory.) That is why Wordsworth reports himself happy 'to be bound / Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground.' It is a scanty plot because it is bounded, and because it is bounded, it can be the generator of boundless meanings. This, then, is my theology: You shall tie yourself to forms and the forms shall set you free.”
— Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
Tagged: Bondaries, Confines, Information Theory, Limits, Structure, Work Strategies, Difference In The Same, Constraints
“My approach to work was influenced by my parents: find the most straightforward solution — not necessarily simple, but appropriate — and do it the best you can. Start with a good idea and go for it. I learned a certain decisiveness that a lot of people lack; I learned how to quickly scrap an idea that didn't work, and how to sick with a good idea and use it effectively. ”
— Valentina Vignelli, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision
Tagged: Decisiveness, Work Strategies
“Why is it better? How much better? Better for whom? Better for how long? ”
— Jan Conradi, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision
Tagged: Work Strategies
“I'm making explorations. I don't know where they're going to take me… My writings constitute the process rather than the completed product of discovery; my purpose is to employ facts as tentative probes, as means of insight, of pattern recognition, rather than to use them in the traditional and sterile sense of classified data, categories, containers… As an investigator, I have no fixed point of view, no commitment to any theory — my own or anyone else's. As a matter of fact, I'm completely ready to junk any statement I've ever made about any subject if events don't bear me out, or if I discover it isn't contributing to an understanding of the problem. I just sit down and start to work. I grope, I listen, I test, I accept and discard; I try out different sequences — until the tumblers fall and the doors spring open.”
— Marshall McLuhan, ucdavis.edu
Tagged: Pattern Recognition, Work Strategies
“I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”
— Walt Disney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
Tagged: Limits, Work Strategies
“Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present.”
— Walt Disney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
Tagged: Work Strategies, Aphorisms, Long-Term Thinking
“Sometimes, distractions can actually serve a purpose. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they warn us— when we feel ourselves regularly succumbing to them— that our work is not well defined, or our tasks are menial, or the whole project we're engaged in is fundamentally pointless. Instead of reaching for the video game controller or turning on soap operas, is it perhaps time to raise your voice and state the obvious? If you're feeling like this, chances are others are too.”
— Jason Fried, Remote: Office Not Required
Tagged: Distractions, Work Strategies
“Why get hung up on what other people are doing if you go forward and work on what you think is best?”
— Larry Page, Digiday.com
Tagged: Work Strategies

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