"It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best."

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James Surowiecki

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Quality Quotes

“When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce.”
“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”
“The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.”
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.”
“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.48, Penguin
“I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.”
“Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.”
“There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.”

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