Malkhasyan Shin Quotes & Sayings

Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

The kind of trust that is necessary to build a great team is what I call vulnerability-based trust. This is what happens when members get to a point where they are completely comfortable being transparent, honest, and naked with one another, where they say and genuinely mean things like "I screwed up," "I need help," "Your idea is better than mine," "I wish I could learn to do that as well as you do," and even, "I'm sorry." When everyone on a team knows that everyone else is vulnerable enough to say and mean those things, and that no one is going to hide his or her weaknesses or mistakes, they develop a deep and uncommon sense of trust. They speak more freely and fearlessly with one another and don't waste time and energy putting on airs or pretending to be someone they're not. Over time, this creates a bond that exceeds what many people ever experience in their lives and, — Patrick Lencioni

To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators. — Peter Cundill

You know what we have to do?"
The Italian nodded. "I know."
"You don't look too happy about it."
"Defacing a beautiful building is a crime."
"But killing people is not?" Dee asked.
"Well, people can always be replaced. — Michael Scott

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. — Plato

Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality. — J.R. Ward

I couldn't imagine that this faint throbbing which had been with me for so long would ever cease. — Albert Camus

You want enough to fill you up. You want more cocaine and more vodka. You want more of all of them, of men, of the things that stick out of them, egos and Marlboro reds and dirty words about banging your perfect ass. — Amanda Boyden

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. — James J. Hill

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's. — Kiera Cass

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. — Barbara Mikulski

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. — Melissa Etheridge

She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths. — Thomm Quackenbush

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me. — Nikki Sixx