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Book cover for Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
calibrated questions: queries that the other side can respond to but that have no fixed answers. It buys you time. It gives your counterpart the illusion of control—they are the one with the answers and power after all
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Phil Jackson
“Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB”
Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Richard Dawkins
“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand.”
Richard Dawkins

Robert Coram
“And you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go.

He raised his hand and pointed. “If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.”

Then Boyd raised his other hand and pointed another direction.

"Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?”
Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

50 Cent
“the greatest danger you face is your mind growing soft and your eye getting dull.”
50 Cent, The 50th Law

Warren Buffett
“If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.”
Warren Buffett

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