Michael Harris > Quotes

“if salespeople want to sell value and differentiate their product, they have to deliver insight that will reframe the buying vision so buyers end up with the solution that helps them overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.”
― Michael Harris

“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”
― Michael Harris, Winning a Debate with an Israel-Hater: How to Effectively Challenge Anti-Israel Extremists in Your Neighborhood

“if you have not yet traveled to Israel, GO.  See the land and the people for yourself.  See the historical record of the Jewish people engraved all over the land of our ancestors.  Experience the vibrancy of everyday life in a country that—despite repeated attempts to destroy it militarily and now to isolate it economically and politically—has reconstituted the Jewish nation in its homeland as a center of democracy and freedom, in a region where both of those values have been extraordinarily difficult to establish.”
― Michael Harris, Winning A Debate With An Israel-Hater: How to Effectively Challenge Anti-Israel Extremists in Your Neighborhood

“Today, thanks to platform technologies, profit is wrought as much by the dismantling of mental resources as it is by the dismantling of natural resources. We have learned to harvest the solitude of others. Profiteers produce social grooming technologies, and agents of distraction swarm around us. Solitude is consumed and depleted as surely as Brazilian rainforests are toppled and the tar sands of Alberta are sucked dry.”
― Michael Harris

“Chapter 8: a walk in the wilds (page 140)

Socrates replied, "Forgive me, my friend. I am devoted to learning; landscapes and trees have nothing to teach me—only the people in the city can do that.”
― Michael Harris, Solitude

“The word“boundaries” often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the“norm” because we think of it as being“risky” or because we’re afraid of failure. It’s easy to settle for average or normal. That’s why the majority of us do!”
― Michael Harris, Wayne Dyer: Beginner's Success Guide - Greatest Life Lessons, Inspirational Stories, and Life Changing Habits

“Chapter 8: a walk in the wilds (page 147)

It can't be just that they* need a break from thinking—some of their best thinking is done during this supposed "downtime" out of doors.

*Referring to famous walkers like Charles Dickens, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr, etc...”
― Michael Harris, Solitude

“Chapter 8: a walk in the wilds (page 136)

They* weren't experiencing solitude when they tramped off with their friends—but they were lowering their levels of connection, mediating things in order to experience an authenticity and communion with nature that their parents took for granted only a few decades earlier.

*Referring to teenagers”
― Michael Harris, Solitude

“The more you can learn and the more knowledge you can retain, the more effective you’ll become at what it is you choose to do.”
― Michael Harris, Wayne Dyer: Beginner's Success Guide - Greatest Life Lessons, Inspirational Stories, and Life Changing Habits