"The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish."

-- Michael Porter

#Essence Quotes #Trying Quotes #Limits Quotes

“Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.”
“Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.”
“The frequencies of the notes in a scaleâ€”do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, doâ€”sound to us like theyâ€™re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.”

Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.”
“I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.”
“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?”

Source : Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353
“I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.”
“Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.”

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