Robotism Quotes & Sayings

But there is virtually no relationship between being an expert and being seen as someone people can trust with their secrets, doubts, and vulnerabilities. A petty office tyrant or micromanager may be high on expertise, but will be so low on trust that it will undermine their ability to manage, and effectively exclude them from informal networks. — Daniel Goleman

The "Excellence Standard" is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zenlike terms, all we have is today. If the day's work cannot be assessed as Excellent, then the oceanic overall goal of Excellence has not been advanced. Period. — Tom Peters

No market economy can function properly without the support of legal and moral sanctions, designed to hold individual agents to their bargains, and to return the cost of misbehaviour to the one who causes it. But — Roger Scruton

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing. — Joyce Meyer

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. — Ciaran Hinds

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. — Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance - although not nearly as often as many developers believe - but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast. — Brian Goetz

Furi found Patrick in the kitchen loosening his tie. Damn the man could wear a suit. The black designer suit had fine lavender pinstripes that Patrick accented perfectly with a light purple tie. Furi would no doubt be responsible for getting the suits his husband traveled with to the cleaners and returned to his closet. He didn't know how he'd become his husband's personal assistant, but it had happened, and to avoid argument, Furi didn't refuse Patrick's requests. — A.E. Via

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. — Philip Guston

The Argonauts looked at one another in amazement and exclaimed with one voice: 'Hercules! — Robert Graves

God himself helps those who dare. — Ovid

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. — Martin Seligman