Quotes

The Messy Middle, Page 370

Resources can be enjoyed only by taking the time to have experiences with the people you love.

Influence, Page 370

Inside… identity-merged groups, unity trumps truth… deception that strengthens a ‘we’-group is viewed by members as morally superior to truth-telling that weakens their group.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 370

Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself.

Influence, Page 371

People not only favor members of their political parties but also believe them more, even under bewildering circumstances.

Influence, Page 371

…scholarship indicate[s] that political-party adherents base many of their decisions on loyalty – born of feelings of ‘we’-ness.

Influence, Page 372

…’we’-group bias corrodes the judgments even of individual specifically selected and trained to be able to banish the bias.

The Effective Executive, Page 374

Even the most brilliant executive is human and thus prone to mistakes and prejudices.

The Messy Middle, Page 374

Be satisfied with your life, but not with what you’ve made. Strive to be more fulfilled by what you’re doing than what you’ve done. Keep on doing.

Influence, Page 375

The thing most likely to guide a person’s behavioral decisions isn’t the most potent or instructive aspects of the whole situation; instead, it’s the one that is most prominent in consciousness at the time of decision.

The Effective Executive, Page 377

Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds.