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The infinite game is a catch in the backyard with your four-year-old son. You’re not trying to win catch; you’re simply playing catch.
Contempt as a rule will cease with the beginning of mourning for the irreversible that cannot be changed, for contempt, too, has in its own way served to deny the reality of the past.
Everyone has an ego. Ego drives the most successful people in life—in the SEAL Teams, in the military, in the business world. They want to win, to be the best.
Prioritize decision‑making practice over constant control: kids learn safety by making choices, reflecting, and adjusting with you—not by being perpetually monitored. The counterintuitive move is to widen guided experience rather than shrink their world by default; surveillance and long groundings can interrupt risk opportunities without building judgment. The formula “experience plus conversation” explains why: when you pair real events with BRIEF debriefs, you convert mistakes into durable learning. The trade‑off is real—sometimes you must “shut it down” to protect—but treating control as the primary tool denies adolescents the repetitions they need to internalize values and assess risk, and it corrodes trust that you will need when stakes rise.
Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
They are collectively responsible for ensuring that their products create value for the customer in a way that creates value for the business.
It will come when a Christian public opinion has arisen, so definite and easily comprehensible as to reach the whole of the inert mass, which is not able to attain truth by its own intuition, and therefore is always under the sway of public opinion.
The more ‘Yeses’ we can, at the very outset, induce, the more likely we are to succeed in capturing the attention for our ultimate proposal.
How about it? Have you anything which might be described as aspirations for the future? I suppose one can’t expect people one helps to understand how difficult it is to help another person.
No, a hopeful romantic. Her look tells us she is still in some pain, but that she really is all right. She has learned to love herself regardless of whether or not some man loves her, and she has the self-confidence she lacked before.
Alphabets apparently arose only once in human history: among speakers of Semitic languages, in the area from modern Syria to the Sinai, during the second millennium B.C. All of the hundreds of historical and now existing alphabets were ultimately derived from that ancestral Semitic alphabet.
This is the essence of the FranklinCovey approach: translating organizational capabilities into specific results again and again, resulting in a winning organization.
Fear often prevents people from leading lives of personal freedom and genuine happiness.
Favour deep modules over shallow onesDeep modules are those that provide simple interfaces to complex functionality, while shallow ones are those that have a complicated interface without hiding much complexity. Shallow modules add complexity to a system because of the cost of learning and using their interfaces, but without providing a compensating benefit by hiding complicated implementation details.
Only when we seek to apply His revelations to our situations will we experience transformation.
There is no deliverance from "deception" but by the acknowledgment and acceptance of truth.
David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others.
Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply.
Every time you hear yourself say, 'I can’t,' dive in and ask, 'Why? What are the reasons I can’t?
It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
