Thrive Quotes - Page 7

• We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

  Henry Cloud

  Success, Mistake, People

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• These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Government, Benefits, Pay

  "America’s public servants are now its masters". www.ft.com. September 10, 2010.

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• The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

  Isaac Asimov

  Technology, Hands, Independence

  "Past, Present, and Future".

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• Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.

  Jacob Barnett

  Fields, Students, Like You

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• Are we being good ancestors?

  Jonas Salk

  Be Good, Ancestor

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• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Dozing

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stoicism, Feels, Havens

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

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• An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Challenges, Insects

  "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.

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• To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.

  Max More

  Years, Machines, Evolution

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• You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Becoming, Slave

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dark, Energy, Mass

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Technology News Intreview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

  Og Mandino

  Desert, Dry, Green

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• So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Laughing, Poor

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World".

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Perception, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

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• Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Weak, Being Bullied

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• You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Wisdom, Business

  Donald J. Trump (2004). “Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received”, p.17, Crown Business

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• I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

  Will Smith

  Love, Thinking, Editing

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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Loss, Ideas, Information

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• Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

  James Surowiecki

  Song, Pops, Repetition

  "Paying to Play". www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2004.

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• On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

  James Surowiecki

  Wall, Blow, Tough

  "Cheat, Pray, Love". www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2009.

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• If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Technology, Giants

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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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