Trust

"Trust can only be built when both parties are committed in good faith to the success of the other"

-Dan Magaha

Time and Space

"We are deeply constrained in what we do by the time and place in which we live"

-George Friedman

Civilization

"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases... 'How can we eat?'... 'Why do we eat?'... 'Where shall we have lunch?"

-Douglas Adams

Fairness

"If you are a woman who isn’t beautiful, it is a social reality that you will have to work twice as hard to hold anyone’s attention. You can either linger on the unfairness of this or you can get with the program."

- Wesley Yang

Policy

"Obviously there are a lot of different companies with different philosophies, but the important thing is to have a philosophy..."

-Tomonobu Itagaki

Design

"If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'".

-Henry Ford

Feedback

"When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you."

-Randy Pausch

Apologies

"...Apologies are a sign of strength"

- Gary Chapman

Opportunistic Anger

"Anger in the oppressed is a response to perceived opportunity, NOT to injustice. And expressions of anger escalate NOT with more injustice, but with LESS injustice."

-Shelby Steele

Intentionality

"Every word, every silence, every action AND inaction serves an explicit intention with methodical precision... whether that intention be known or unknown is up to you."

-Goodwill, the Asshole Sage

Judicious Attraction

"Don't think about who you want. Think about the behaviors you want."

-Juli Lee

Judgement

"When you answer somebody's questions, then that is advice.

But if you give advice without being asked, then that is judgement."

- Matthew Hinsley

Information

"I believe attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool."

-Linda Stone

Motivation

"A living being seeks above all else to discharge its strength. Life itself is will to power. Nothing else matters."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Perspective

"The happiest people are either very lucky or very flexible in their criteria for happiness."

-Matthew Y. Wong, Ph.D.

Sacrifice

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find

a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause,

but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers

them unlimited opportunities for both."

-Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (1951)

Balance

"To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium."

- Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change (1963)

Strife

"Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable than those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence..."

"We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for."

- Eric Hoffer, On Nature and Human Nature