Despite the title of this book, this isn’t a self-help book by any means. It’s more concerned with the mechanics of the mind than with the application of those ideas. One reviewer pointed out a quote that fits the book well: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself...
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ~Mark ...
A Process to “Right” the Company Often later-stage, venture-backed companies (“late-stage start-ups”) seek advice as they find themselves languishing in the neverland between being heavy on intellectual property (IP) assets and light on commercial products or services. Typically, we are con...
To quote from the ABC News special, A Touch of Evil,“In 1961 Dr. Stanley Milgram came up with this experiment to test whether people would blindly follow the order of an authority figure. He found that 2/3 of his subjects were willing to give the most dangerous shock on the machine....
Today, the quote at the beginning of the book makes me cringe, but back then…oh! Back then I thought it a lovely sentiment. “Ah! the true rule is-a wife in her husband’s house is his servant; it is in his heart that she is queen. Whatever of the best he can conceive, it...
The premise is simple – while reading, you can share notes, quotes, and annotations with others. This sharing also gives you an idea of what to read next. For instance, you canmake beautiful quote cardswith one click and share your favorite passages from the books you are reading. ...
>python bot.py --delete 299 --- rowid: 299 Author: Terry Pratchett Quote: The intelligence of a creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. Delete?(y/n) y stats Provides basic statistics about the database, including total number of sentences, number ...
The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. I am making my way slowly through this book and love it to the max. Here’s a quote to tempt you: Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your ...
That quote comes from a scene in the book when the young protagonists come across the monster, Pennywise, in an old newspaper clipping from 1945. I had no idea that I had absorbed this paragraph, or at least its final lines, first read when I was 14, completely enough to have known it...
25. “Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.”– Mark Twain 26. “Laughter is an instant vacation.”– Milton Berle 27. “A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.”– Hal Chadwicke 28. “Vacation calories don’t count.”–Unknown ...