"Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear."

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Source : Twitter post from Dec 11, 2016

John Maeda

#Littles Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Inspiring Business Quotes

“The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid, uninteresting, petty, and chaotic. It is difficult to bear the resultant feeling of emptiness, and the vacuum of our minds may only too easily be filled by some big, fantastic notion - political or otherwise - which suddenly seem to illumine everything and to give meaning and purpose to our existence. It needs no emphasis that herein lies one of the great dangers of our time.”
“To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.”
“The happiest people are the ones with the most community.”

Source : Donny Deutsch, Peter Knobler (2009). “Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.”
“Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.”
“Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.”
“Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.”
“Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.”

Source : "ONE ON ONE: Jason Silva On The Power Of Ideas" by Katherine Keating, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2014.

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