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#1

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
― Lyall Watson

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#2

“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

tags: mindfulness, philosophy, present-moment

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#3

“There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. Mindfulness is a vivid awareness of whatever is appearing in one’s mind or body—thoughts, sensations, moods—without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the unpleasant.”
― Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

tags: awareness, experience, mindfulness, spirituality

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#4

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Psychotherapy East and West

tags: mindfulness, psychology

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#5

“A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: happiness, healthy-mind, inner-peace, mental-health, mindfulness, thinking, thoughts

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#6

“Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and dancing sheep, and cries, ’Of course I am happy here! It’s wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!’ In its wholehearted acceptance of what is;I feel as if he had struck me in the chest. Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow-it’s quite enough!

Have you seen the snow leopard?

No! Isn’t that wonderful?”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

tags: buddhism, holiness, mindfulness, nature, wonder, zen, zen-buddhism

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#7

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.”
― Jacob Bronowski

tags: actions-speak-louder-than-words

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#8

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

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#9

“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”
― Tim Minchin

tags: alternative-medicine, humor, pseudoscience, quackery, scepticism

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#10

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#11

“I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?

Thank you. Anton.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science

tags: pseudoscience, science

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#12

“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: credulity, criticism, culture, delusion, ignorance, pseudoscience, science, skepticism, skeptics, superstition

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#13

“When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-management, change-the-world, leadership, leadership-development, vision

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#14

“Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: complexity-theory, emergence, strategy

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#15

“The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-management, leadership, science-of-change, strategy

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#16

“It is time to euthanize change management.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-management, leadership, science-and-change, strategy

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#17

“Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: leadership, science-and-change, strategy

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#18

“Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-management, involvement, leadership, participation, science-and-change, strategy

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#19

“Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-management, science-and-change, strategy

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#20

“Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: cognitive-biases, decision-making, leadership, science-and-change, strategy

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#21

“Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: analytics, decision-making, leadership, science-and-change, strategy

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#22

“Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: analytics, decision-making, science-and-change, strategy, vuca

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#23

“Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: decision-making, halo-effect, risk-management, science-and-change, strategy

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#24

“All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: cognitive-biases, decision-making, groupthink, science-and-change, wisdom-of-crowds

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#25

“The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: cognitive-biases, decision-making, hubris, science-and-change

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#26

“The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: creativity, decision-making, leadership, science-and-change

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#27

“The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: decision-making, leadership, rationality, science-and-change

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#28

“Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-leadership, change-management, leadership, science-and-change

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#29

“Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: bad-science, change-leadership, pseudoscience, psychology, science-and-change

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#30

“That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: change-leadership, decision-making, groupthink, science-and-change, team-dynamics

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