“You probably don’t even see when work is committed to your organization. And if you can’t see it, you can’t manage it—let alone organize it, sequence it, and have any assurance that your resources can complete it.”
“The wisdom of the Tathāgata is not to be measured by the yardstick of human intelligence, nor limited by the cravings of the human heart.”
― Survey of Buddhism / The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
― Survey of Buddhism / The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
― Seeing Voices
― Seeing Voices
“You cannot dismantle what you cannot see. You cannot challenge what you do not understand.”
― Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
― Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
“The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.”
― The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
― The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the “complexity” of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. —Thomas Sowell”
― Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
― Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
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