Miranda Phoebe

“Nothing new is ever discovered as long as it is possible to copy -Braun (1864)”
― Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings

“We learn from history that those who are disloyal to their own superiors are most prone to preach loyalty to their subordinates.”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Why Don't We Learn from History?

“In scientific terms, when the dopamine system is at rest, it fires at a leisurely three to five times per second. When it’s excited, it zooms up to twenty to thirty times per second. When an expected reward fails to materialize, the dopamine firing rate drops to zero, and that feels terrible.”
― Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

“The effective executive encourages opinions. But he insists that the people who voice them also think through what it is that the “experiment”—that is, the testing of the opinion against reality—would have to show. The effective executive, therefore, asks: “What do we have to know to test the validity of this hypothesis?” “What would the facts have to be to make this opinion tenable?”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done