Quotes

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, Page 124

…unless your failure involved a capital crime, you now have the opportunity to learn from your mistake, recover, and improve your approach to the next challenge.

Off Balance, Page 124

…once a day gets away from you, it is very difficult to alter its momentum…

Hidden Potential, Page 124

Psychologists find that achieving a sense of progress doesn’t require huge gains. Fuel can come from small wins.

Drive, Page 124

As wonderful as flow is, the path to mastery – becoming ever better at something you care about – is not lined with daisies and spanned by a rainbow… Mastery hurts.

Influence, Page 124

…when we make a compliance decision, it is always a good idea to separate our feelings about the requester from the request.

The Start-up of You, Page 124

The secret behind stellar small gifts is that it’s something you can uniquely provide.

How to Begin, Page 124

If you don’t tally up the price that needs to be paid, you can’t fully commit.

Inspired, Page 124

When done well, the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams…

The Progress Paradox, Page 124

We would be foolish to expect possessions to make us happy, or an economic system to care about our emotional state.

Think Again, Page 124

As stereotypes stick and prejudice deepens, we don’t just identify with our own group; we disidentify with our adversaries, coming to define who we are by what we’re not.