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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
“Your good and my good, perhaps they are different, and either forced good or forced evil will make a people cry with pain. Does the ore admire the flame which transforms it?”
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom
“The dominant narrative, the market share leader, the policies and procedures that rule the day—they all exist for a reason.
They are good at resisting efforts by insurgents like you.
If all it took to upend the status quo was the truth, we would have changed a long time ago.
If all we were waiting for was a better idea, a simpler solution, or a more efficient procedure, we would have shifted away from the status quo a year or a decade or a century ago.
The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes.
And the engine of culture is status.”
― This is Marketing You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See, Meltdown How to turn your hardship into happiness, How To Be F*cking Awesome, Mindset With Muscle 4 Books Collection Set
They are good at resisting efforts by insurgents like you.
If all it took to upend the status quo was the truth, we would have changed a long time ago.
If all we were waiting for was a better idea, a simpler solution, or a more efficient procedure, we would have shifted away from the status quo a year or a decade or a century ago.
The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes.
And the engine of culture is status.”
― This is Marketing You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See, Meltdown How to turn your hardship into happiness, How To Be F*cking Awesome, Mindset With Muscle 4 Books Collection Set
“The world is empty only to him who does not know how to direct his libido towards things and people, and to render them alive and beautiful. What compels us to create a substitute from within ourselves is not an external lack, but our own inability to include anything outside ourselves in our love.”
― Symbols of Transformation
― Symbols of Transformation
“There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.”
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“The important thing is what he talks about, not whether he agrees with it or not.”
― Symbols of Transformation
― Symbols of Transformation
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