Jon Snyder

“We would never call the rigors of medical school “easy,” but it is more feasible to spend seven years learning about the complex cause-and-effect relationships in the human body than to attempt to record and memorize every possible event that can befall bodies. This is the difference between “education” and “training.” Medical school is education, first aid is training. Education requires fundamental understanding, which can be used to grasp and respond to a nearly infinite variety of threats; training involves singular actions, which are useful only against anticipated challenges. Education is resilient, training is robust.”
― Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Superbosses suggest a very clear solution to this problem: protect the “why” of your business, but be prepared to constantly improve everything about the “how” of your business as if your life depended on it.”
― Sydney Finkelstein, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent

“Who takes a step bereft of love walks to death in shrouds of calculation to lie forever embalmed by money in a mausoleum of things.”
― Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1

“This sounds like a paradox, but a great painting has to be better than it has to be. For example, when Leonardo painted the portrait of Ginevra de Benci in the National Gallery, he put a juniper bush behind her head. In it he carefully painted each individual leaf. Many painters might have thought, this is just something to put in the background to frame her head. No one will look that closely at it.

Not Leonardo. How hard he worked on part of a painting didn't depend at all on how closely he expected anyone to look at it. He was like Michael Jordan. Relentless.

Relentlessness wins because, in the aggregate, unseen details become visible”
― Paul graham