"What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage."

-- Henry Mintzberg

#Years Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.”
“Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.”
“All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.”

Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”

Source : Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers (2014). “Everybody's Got Something”, p.32, Hachette UK
“Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium.”

Source : "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.
“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.”
“Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.”
“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”

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