"The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other."

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Source : James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor

James Surowiecki

#Independent Quotes #People Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.”
“[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.”
“Our approach and our vision ... is identical.”
“The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .”
“I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.”
“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”
“People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?”
“It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.”

Source : "Jim Harbaugh comfortable in chaos" by Seth Wickersham, www.espn.com. October 02, 2014.

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