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“The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.”
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“Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.”
Source : William Wharton (2014). “The Complete Collection”, p.104, HarperCollins UK
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“All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.”
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“If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.”
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“The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.”
Source : Harriet B. Braiker (2002). “The Type E* Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody”, p.19, iUniverse
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“The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.”
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“In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.”
Source : Michael Meade (1993). “Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men”, Harpercollins
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“The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.”
Source : Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”
