Rolf Dobelli famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Mind #News #Body
Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?
-- Rolf Dobelli

#News Stories #Decision #May
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Simple #Thinking #Errors
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Envious #Okay #Persons
If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Shopping #People #Fifteen
Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Thinking #Idiot #Assuming
Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Stress #Organization #Creative
Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.
-- Rolf Dobelli

#Might #Invention #Dangerous

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relaxâ€“and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
And unlike the rest of you, he hasnâ€™t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he wonâ€™t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.
It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media,
You have to trust your body to take care of you.
We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

Rolf Dobelli famous quotes

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