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If you talk, you repeat what you already know. If you listen, you learn.
… the genius is not to write a 5 cent idea in a ten dollar sentence. It’s to put a ten dollar idea in a 5 cent sentence. That’s beauty. That’s editing. That’s writing.
Know your audience… which is applicable to most people.
"If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’."
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— Malcolm Gladwell
on entrepreneurial risk on May 28, 2012 at the Toronto Public Library.
(via rustyameadows)
The New York Times works because it is, at heart, a collective of unique individuals bound together in pursuit of great journalism. We’re about the common goal, not about jostling one another for a place in a transitory spotlight. The mission is about us, not about me or you.
Class.
"Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
— Which TNG episode is this line from?
"In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe that these are qualities that we have in sufficient measure. (CORRECTION FROM MR. PICARD (Thank you.))"
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Which TNG episode is this line from? From a new series called #whichtngepisode.
Previous: In my experience, communication is a function of patience and imagination. I’d like to think we have both qualities in sufficient measure.
"… it’s a very exciting time. We got a lot to do. We gotta get to it."
— Tank (from the movie The Matrix)
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I used this thought in a conversation yesterday and was hoping to get the actual quote. Found it. (via: brainyquote)
"Empathy requires the ability to reason about the beliefs of others."
