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Content: Book | Author: Andrew Finlayson | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

Being rich is having money. Being wealthy is having time.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Wisdom

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Content: Quotation | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Expertise, Knowledge

Don’t ask for power. Seek influence. It lasts longer.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Personal Development, Power / Authority

“When we talk about thinking, we think that we know what we’re talking about, but there are many different kinds of thinking. When I say people don’t know how to think I mean they haven’t been trained to think in different ways. The simplest distinction is between critical thinking and creative thinking. The most powerful thinkers are able to integrate those two modes. That’s one … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Marcia Conner, Michael Gelb | Source: LiNE Zine | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

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Article looks at Potentia International’s unique “profiling” system, designed to help people answer major career questions: What type of work will allow me to make the greatest contribution? Which career path fits best with my values and aspirations? How can I grow as a person by developing my latent abilities? What kind of work will give me the most pleasure, unleash the most energy, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Curtis Sittenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Learning

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. Most of the bars we beat against are in ourselves — we put them there, and we can take them down.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, Life

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Challenge

Do you have what it takes to succeed in the Internet Economy? Take the Russell Reynolds Web DNA quiz to find out. Answer 12 questions and see how you compare to others who have taken the quiz. Then read on to learn more about the six characteristics that set successful Internet Executives apart (or go there directly at: Content: Online Resource | Source: Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Personal Development

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Personal Development

A good architect has to finish three or four successful systems before he can begin to identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.

Corollary: You can’t generalize from a sample of one.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Mythical Man-Month | Subject: Experience

Men are not prisoners of fate, only prisoners of their own minds.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

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Content: Book | Authors: James A. Champy, Nitin Nohria | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Challenge

There are only three things that are certain: God, human folly, and laughter. We cannot comprehend the first two, so we have to do the best we can with the third – laughter.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development