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“I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.”
― Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
― Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
“If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!”
― Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Leadership Service
― Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Leadership Service
“It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.”
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“If I am to believe everything that I see in the media, happiness is to be six foot tall or more and to have bleached teeth and a firm abdomen, all the latest clothes, accessories, and electronics, a picture-perfect partner of the opposite sex who is both a great lover and a terrific friend, an assortment of healthy and happy children, a pet that is neither a stray nor a mongrel, a large house in the right sort of postcode, a second property in an idyllic holiday location, a top-of-the-range car to shuttle back and forth from the one to the other, a clique of ‘friends’ with whom to have fabulous dinner parties, three or four foreign holidays a year, and a high-impact job that does not distract from any of the above. There are at least three major problems that I can see with this ideal of happiness. (1) It represents a state of affairs that is impossible to attain to and that is in itself an important source of unhappiness. (2) It is situated in an idealised and hypothetical future rather than in an imperfect but actual present in which true happiness is much more likely to be found, albeit with great difficulty. (3) It has largely been defined by commercial interests that have absolutely nothing to do with true happiness, which has far more to do with the practice of reason and the peace of mind that this eventually brings. In short, it is not only that the bar for happiness is set too high, but also that it is set in the wrong place, and that it is, in fact, the wrong bar. Jump and you’ll only break your back.”
― The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
― The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
“Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit, often in hidden skirmishes that make their own performances appear superior and their rivals’ seem worse. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.”
― The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.”
― The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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