Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask. Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
~ Peter Drucker
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We have now, for better or worse, entered the Age of Artificial Intelligence. AI is already good at regurgitating information from a lecture. AI is already good at standardized tests. AI can already write papers that would get A’s at Harvard. If you’re hiring the students who are good at those things, you’re hiring people whose talents might soon be obsolete.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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It is, after all, unlikely that Rush Limbaugh always feels as jaunty and confident as he seems on the air, or that Howard Stern really is deeply fascinated by porn starlets every waking minute of the day. But a host’s persona is not the same as outright acting. For the most part, it’s probably more like the way we are all slightly different with some people than we are with others.
~ David Foster Wallace
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In the primitive state of human knowledge there is no regular division of intellectual labour. Every student cultivates all the sciences. As knowledge accrues, the sciences part off; and students devote themselves each to some one branch.
~ Auguste Comte
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~ John Steinbeck
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