Manuel Lamela > Manuel's Quotes

“Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Classic Work On How To Achieve Happiness: The Psychology of Happiness

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things:”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“as much as talent counts, effort counts twice.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday. So,”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“No Heroics. If you need a hero to get things done, you have a problem. Heroic effort should be viewed as a failure of planning.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don’t do it. If you think this doesn’t apply to you, you’re wrong—it does.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Doing half of something is, essentially, doing nothing.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“That absolute alignment of purpose and trust is something that creates greatness.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Making people prioritize by value forces them to produce that 20 percent first. Often by the time they’re done, they realize they don’t really need the other 80 percent, or that what seemed important at the outset actually isn’t.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Each cycle J.J. would talk to the team and ask three very simple questions: What did you do since the last time we talked? What are you going to do before we talk again? And what is getting in your way?”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“observar, orientarse, decidir y actuar. Asimilaba”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: El arte de hacer el doble de trabajo en la mitad de tiempo

“Blame Is Stupid. Don’t look for bad people; look for bad systems—ones that incentivize bad behavior and reward poor performance.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“aunque planear el combate es importante, los planes se evaporan en cuanto suena el primer disparo.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: El arte de hacer el doble de trabajo en la mitad de tiempo

“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“79 percent of smartphone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up every morning.”
― Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Users who continually find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it.”
― Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products