Conomiquement Quotes & Sayings

Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

astonishing number of senior leaders are systemically incapable of identifying their organization's most glaring and dangerous shortcomings. This is not a function of stupidity, but rather stems from two routine pressures that constrain everybody's thinking and behavior. The first is comprised of cognitive biases, such as mirror imaging, anchoring, and confirmation bias. These unconscious motivations on decision-making under uncertain conditions make it inherently difficult to evaluate one's own judgments and actions. As David Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell University, has shown in countless environments, people who are highly incompetent in terms of their skills or knowledge are also terrible judges of their own performance. For example, people who perform the worst on pop quizzes also have the widest variance between how they thought they performed and the actual score that they earned.22 — Micah Zenko

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. — Nas

What good shall I do this day? — Benjamin Franklin

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. — Jean Monnet

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city ... — Charles Finch

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it. — Katie Aselton

Walking makes us take problems in our stride. — Andy Hargreaves

People must have dignity and identity. If they can't do it peacefully, they will do it defensively. — Joseph Tirella

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it. — Shelley Long

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson