"What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do."

-- William J. H. Boetcker

#Expectations Quotes #Trying Quotes #Half Quotes

“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”
“I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.”
“Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'”
“I only tweet if I discover something that's fantastic, or if I heard something really great.”
“No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.”
“Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.”
“It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.”

Source : Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey (2013). “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization”, p.49, Harvard Business Press
“Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.”

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