Category: Quotations

Quote: “Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination…”

Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been ploughed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. Environmentalists are always arguing that those butterflies, those grasslands, those watershed woodlands, have an utterly necessary function in the grand scheme of things, even if they don’t produce a crop. The same is true of the meadowlands of imagination, time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space – for wilderness and for public space – must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

Rebecca Solnit
Wanderlust

"I love using the latest technologies to…

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don’t want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

Maynard Webb

"All of us want to be led by real people, not…

All of us want to be led by real people, not figureheads. As our organizations become less hierarchical, we yearn for leaders we can relate to as regular human beings. As a leader, the only way you can achieve this is to be your authentic self. You cannot “fake it ’til you make it,” because people sense intuitively whether you are genuine or not.

Bill George from The Triumph of Authentic Leaders.

"the average office chair is 7.2 years old…

On average, employees spend 5.3 hours per day sitting, which means the chair is the foundation of a healthy office environment. Because the average office chair is 7.2 years old, the integrity of the chair’s support and functionality might be jeopardized due to its age.

From Everything You Need to Know About Ergonomics

Everything I record, I just try to…

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

B. B. King

BB King, the King of Blues, dies at 89

"Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or…

“Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or of oneself. And to let experience do its work, a person has to be open to receiving the lessons that it has to teach.”

Dr. Henry Cloud

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of…

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”

Peter Drucker

"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but…

“We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom. We have come to know, or rather to believe, that boredom is not part of the natural lot of man, but can be avoided by a sufficiently vigorous pursuit of excitement.”

Bertrand Russell

"In 10 years, it's predicted that 40% of Fortune 500 companie…

“In 10 years, it’s predicted that 40% of Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist. You must disrupt to survive.”

John Chambers, CEO, Cisco

Quotations: Top 20 for 2014

I post a number of quotations as I find them, these are the twenty that have received the most views in 2014.

It’s interesting to note that #1 has only been active since the end of May:

  1. “Only three things happen naturally in organisations…
  2. “You will never change your life until you change something you do…
  3. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before…
  4. “The least productive people are usually the ones who…
  5. “The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after…
  6. “Vision is a picture of the future that produces…
  7. “The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake…
  8. “I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in…
  9. “Every act of communication is…
  10. “When you hear the media reporting on something you know about you wonder…
  11. “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to…
  12. “This happens to companies all too often. Unless the company…
  13. “After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when…
  14. “They’re not employees, they’re…
  15. “There are a million ways to lose a work day, but…
  16. “Most of our conscious life will be at work. Like it or not. Waste your work life…
  17. “I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure…
  18. “The problem with communication…
  19. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than…
  20. “Skill is what built this country’s strength…”

“Plans are useful in the sense that they’re proof that planning has taken place…"

“Plans are useful in the sense that they’re proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. But as for the plans themselves, they just don’t work on the battle field.”

Chip and Dan Heath