Gino Mempin

“The world likes to see things in black and white, in moral and immoral. But there is gray in between. And just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesen't mean they will act upon it.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Longer hours don't equal better results. By getting the right people together, structuring the activities, and eliminating distraction, we've found that it's possible to make rapid progress while working a reasonable schedule.”
― Jake Knapp, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

“In movies and novels, the yakuza are always reaching for a sword or a gun, but that's bullshit. Professionals were different in those days. Their job, the job they depended on for a living, was to shake the dice and give their customers a good time, which meant it was actually quite rare for them to quarrel. There were bosses who didn't see eye to eye, of course, but if they'd started carving each other up just because they didn't get on well, the police would have clamped down on them, and their business would have folded. So in a way you could say we were more accomodating generally than ordinary people.”
― Junichi Saga, Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld

“To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School