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“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”
― Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, decribes a poll of 23,000 employees drawn from a number of companies and industries. He reports the poll's findings:

* Only 37 percent said they have a clear understanding of what their organization is trying to achieve and why
* Only one in five was enthusiastic about their team's and their organization's goals
* Only one in five said they had a clear "line of sight" between their tasks and their team's and organization's goals
* Only 15 percent felt that their organization fully enables them to execute key goals
* Only 20 percent fully trusted the organization they work for



Then, Covey superimposes a very human metaphor over the statistics. He says, "If, say, a soccer team had these same scores, only 4 of the 11 players on the field would know which goal is theirs. Only 2 of the 11 would care. Only 2 of the 11 would know what position they play and know exactly what they are supposed to do. And all but 2 players would, in some way, be competing against their own team members rather than the opponent.”
― Chip Heath & Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”
― Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.”
― Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.”
― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“Fundamental Attribution Error.” The error lies in our inclination to attribute people’s behavior to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.
-Zendaya”
― Zendaya

“You may not have a special life, but you make life special”
― Zendaya

“I'm a vegetarian because I love myself, I love life and I love planet Earth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Working with nature is much more profitable than working against it.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The same way trees add value to the natural environment, businesses should add value to the natural environment. It's not about just co-existing; it's about co-thriving.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“It's not about just co-existing; it's about co-thriving.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Asset protection is critical in business. And the best way to protect an asset is with systems that self organize and self execute behaviors which function as protective to the asset.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Some technologies take several decades to reach mainstream adaptation because they were waiting on many other things to reach a certain level of maturity or accessibility. For example, in order for video conferencing technologies like Facetime and Zoom to reach mainstream adaptation, it needed the following things to reach greater maturity and accessibility — camera technology, smartphone popularity, computer chip manufacturing, silica mining, copper mining, fiber optic cable distribution, 4G communication technology and more. The magic happens in the convergence.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Industries transform when certain patents expire.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Cloud first software architecture is critical to designing efficient systems. All the hardware need to be capable of the most sophisticated things and then we can focus our attention on improving software capabilities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In terms of systems design, shapes are important. Rectangles are not common in nature. That's probably because from a systems design perspective, rectangles often degrade efficiency instead of contributing to efficiency. Yet humans have designed an entire supply chain system based on rectangles, squares and straight lines. If we want to be more efficient, we should replace those rectangles, squares and straight lines with ovals, circles and hexagons. And maybe some other nature inspired geometries.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth