"If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment."

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Source : Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Tom Rath

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“Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.”
“P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.”
“The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.”

Source : "Chancellor still aiming for 20p tax rate" by Nikki Knewstubb, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1991.
“All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.”
“Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?”

Source : Alfréd Rényi (1984). “A diary on information theory”
“When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.”
“I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.”
“As far as I know, my husband never had a baby.”

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