Favorite Quotes
Source: Random People • Specific People •
| “ God may have given [women] 50,000 words per day and her husband only 25,000. He comes home from work with 24,795 used up and merely grunts his way through the evening. He may descend into Monday night football while his wife is dying to expend her remaining 25,000 words. ” |
Dr. James Dobson Love for a Lifetime (page 58) Focus on the Family |
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| “ I... heard James Dobson compare life to a Monopoly game. We work hard to accumulate things so we can impress people who will probably resent us anyway. Then one day it's all over, we give it all back, and someone puts us in a box and closes the lid. Suddenly the dollar bills, deeds, and hotels don't matter. What matters is whether or not we pursued righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness. What matters is whether or not we are ready to face God. ” |
Bob Russell Money: A User's Manual (page 89) Bob Russell Ministries |
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| “ The fact that something is a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' is irrelevant... A great company will have many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. ” |
Jim Collins Good to Great (page 143) |
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“ At what point does the legitimate desire to protect become a repressive system of abuse? ” (Location 912) “ When we make faith more about us than Jesus, religion goes bad. ” (Location 3794) |
Randy Alcorn Religiously Transmitted Diseases |
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“ Matter and energy are basic prerequisites for life, but they cannot be used to distinguish between living and inanimate systems. The central characteristic of all living beings is the “information” they contain, and this information regulates all life processes and procreative functions. Transfer of information plays a fundamental role in all living organisms. ” (Location 835) “ There is no known law of nature, no known process, and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter. ” (Location 1026) |
Werner Gitt In the Beginning Was Information |
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“ We are more than just sensitive to changes in context. We’re exquisitely sensitive to them. ” (Location 1833) “ What Mavens and Connectors and Salesmen do to an idea in order to make it contagious is to alter it in such a way that extraneous details are dropped and others are exaggerated so that the message itself comes to acquire a deeper meaning... something the rest of us can understand. ” (Location 2609) “ Smoking was never cool. Smokers are cool. ” (Location 2971) |
Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point |
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“ In the first two seconds of looking—in a single glance—they were able to understand more about the essence of the statue than the team at the [museum] was able to understand after fourteen months. ” (Location 192) “ With a logic problem, asking people to explain themselves doesn’t impair their ability to come up with the answers. In some cases, in fact, it may help. But problems that require a flash of insight operate by different rules. ” (Location 1594) “ The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. ” (Location 3316) “ Sometimes we can make better judgments with less information. ” (Location 3452) |
Malcom Gladwell Blink |
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“ Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage. ” (Location 974) “ The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls “practical intelligence” [and] includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect...” It’s practical in nature: that is, it’s not knowledge for its own sake. It’s knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want. And, critically, it is a kind of intelligence separate from the sort of analytical ability measured by IQ. To use the technical term, general intelligence and practical intelligence are “orthogonal”: the presence of one doesn’t imply the presence of the other. ” (Location 1256) |
Malcolm Gladwell Outliers |
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“ The consumer turns to the company and says, ‘Give me more for less.’ And then companies turn to employees and say, ‘If we don’t give them more for less, we are in trouble. I can’t guarantee you a job and a union steward can’t guarantee you a job, only a customer can.’ ” (Location 4424) “ [IBM discovered that] an extraordinary company could only be built on a critical mass of extraordinary people. ” (Location 6628) “ The [new] job of government and business is not to guarantee anyone a lifetime job—those days are over. That social contract has been ripped up with the flattening of the world. What government can and must guarantee people is the chance to make themselves more employable. ” (Location 6630) “ The jobs are going to go where the best-educated workforce is with the most competitive infrastructure and environment for creativity and supportive government. It is inevitable. And by definition those people will have the best standard of living. This may or may not be the countries who led the Industrial Revolution. ” (Location 7252) “ The fact that technology allows us to access, create, and receive more and more information doesn’t mean that our minds can absorb it all. Moore’s Law applies to microchips, but not to the human brain. Our capacity to process and analyze information doesn’t double every twenty-four months. ” (Location 8884) |
Thomas Freidman The World is Flat |
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“ Collectivism is the rule in our world, and individualism the exception. ” (Location 853) “ In weak uncertainty avoidance cultures, like the USA and even more in the UK and, for example, Sweden, managers and nonmanagers alike feel definitely uncomfortable with systems of rigid rules, especially if it is evident that many of these are never followed. In strong uncertainty avoidance cultures, like most of the Latin world, people feel equally uncomfortable without the structure of a system of rules, even if many of these are impractical and impracticable. At either pole of the uncertainty avoidance dimension people's feelings are fed by deep psychological needs, related to the control of aggression and to basic security in the face of the unknown. ” (Location 2156) “ The Western concern with Truth is supported by an axiom in Western logic that a statement excludes its opposite: if A is true, B, which is the opposite of A, must be false. Eastern logic does not have such an axiom. If A is true, its opposite B may also be true, and together they produce a wisdom which is superior to either A or B. ” (Location 2524) “ What is good or bad depends in each case on where one wants the organization to go, and a cultural feature that is an asset for one purpose is unavoidably a liability for another. ” (Location 2878) “ It is dangerous to assume one knows one's organization's present cultural map and how it should be changed. Organizations can look very different from the top than from the middle or bottom where the actual work is done. ” (Location 2894) |
Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede Cultures & Organizations: Software for the Mind |
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“ Teaching kids the history of the Electoral College doesn’t prepare them to be more thoughtful voters—or even to want to vote at all. ” (Location 241) “ Schools haven’t changed; the world has. And so our schools are not failing. Rather, they are obsolete. ” (Location 295) |
Tony Wagner The Global Achievement Gap |
| “ While searching for God's will we must not overlook God's word. ” | |
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| “ Any pan is 'no-stick' if you no cook in it ” | |
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| “ God created us in His own image and yet we try to return the favor, and ultimately no matter what we feel or no matter what we think does not determine or change who God is in His purest essence. ” | |
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| “ Q: Why is there a double standard for men and women on the issue of sex and first dates? A: It is easy for a woman, all she has to do is walk into a bar and say 'ok' so the label 'easy' is accurate. But it is much more difficult for a man, so if he succeeds he is admired for his persuasion skill. ” [Note I do not approve of sex outside of marriage but found this to be a very honest explanation worth recording.] | |
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| “ Even a broken clock is right twice a day. ” | |
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| “ Life is a roller coaster, not a monorail. ” | |
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| “ Our problems are big if we have a small God but small if we have a big God. ” | |
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| “ Salvation is free (to receive) but cost Christ everything (to make available) and still costs you everything (to obey). ” | |
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| “ If Satan, our spiritual enemy, can't make us really really bad then he'll try to make us really really busy. ” | |
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| “ Sin never leaves us happy, satisfied or content, it may have momentary pleasure but it evaporates and leaves us empty and miserable. ” | |
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| “ Exposing sin is like exposing cancer, it may not be fun but can save your life. ” | |
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| “ What have you done that you believe in and are proud of? ” | |
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| “ If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? ” [Matthew 7:20] | |
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Last Modified: Thursday, October 06, 2011