Dan Heath famous quotes

03-28-2025

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.
-- Dan Heath

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You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules.
-- Dan Heath

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You want to invent new ideas, not rules
-- Dan Heath

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Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.
-- Dan Heath

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You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.
-- Dan Heath

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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we wonâ€™t succeed. We canâ€™t pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
Donâ€™t use the language of â€˜goodâ€™ or â€˜badâ€™ when talking about blood sugar numbers â€“ these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Donâ€™t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

Dan Heath famous quotes

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