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“In the sea battles of World War I, German sailors were sometimes stranded in lifeboats for days or weeks after their ships were sunk. Invariably, the first men to die were the youngest. This phenomenon remained a mystery until it was realized that the older sailors, who had survived earlier sinkings, knew that the crisis could be weathered; lacking such experience, the young sailors perished because they saw themselves as trapped in a hopeless situation.”
― Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
― Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
“By applying the same optical principles responsible for normal eyesight it was possible to extend vision artificially; similarly, the calculus of probabilities formalized the good sense that came naturally to the fortunate few to help out the befuddled many.”
― The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
― The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
“In order to stay alive, your body must live on the wings of change.”
― Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
― Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
“Neither course would heal the wound. Neither would end the suffering, but one choice would offer the illusion of free will while allowing his pain to control him. The other offered freedom, complete with the unavoidable pain of living.”
― Scholar of Magic
― Scholar of Magic
“There is tremendous stress these days on liking people, helping people, getting along with people, as qualifications for a manager. These alone are never enough. In every successful organization there are bosses who do not like people, who do not help them, and who do not get along with them. Cold, unpleasant, demanding, they often teach and develop more people than anyone else. They command more respect than the most likable person ever could. They demand exacting workmanship of themselves and other people. They set high standards and expect that they will be lived up to. They consider only what is right and never who is right. And though often themselves persons of brilliance, they never rate intellectual brilliance above integrity in others. The manager who lacks these qualities of character—no matter how likable, helpful, or amiable, no matter, even, how competent or brilliant—is a menace who is unfit to be a manager.”
― Management, Revised Edition
― Management, Revised Edition
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