Post(s) tagged with "love"

All love stories are frustration stories.

Adam Phillips

18 March 2013 19 Permalink
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One can’t love humanity, one can only love people.

Graham Green

6 January 2013 21 Permalink
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What goes right is more important than what goes wrong.

- George Vaillant, regarding the positive benefits of a warm childhood.

The single most consistent predictor of how we will fare in life is whether we were loved as children. But I think this quote has a more general applicability.

6 November 2012 32 Permalink
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The way to know life is to love many things.

- Vincent van Gogh

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11 August 2011 100 workisnotajob Permalink
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Socialogy

  • John Hagel | John offers up some great insights, like the fact that passion is lower the larger that businesses get.

  • Euan Semple | A chat with my old pal, and the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

  • Will McInnes | The author of Culture Shock and managing director of Nixon/McInnes

  • Jennifer Magnolfi | An interview with the woman who said, 'Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do'.

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  • What Drives Us? | A draft chapter of my book, discussing motivations, Maslow's hierarchy, and fluidarity.

  • Socialogy: Interview With John Hagel | I Speak with Joh Hagel about the innovation at the edge.

  • Complex organisation arises from webs of interaction among causal factors | So, it turns out that DNA is, in fact, a great metaphor for business culture, but only after you realize that DNA is not a few hundred off-on switches, but instead a universe of unknowable complexities, that we can interact with, and understand at some abstract cartoonish level, but not control, and never fully comprehend.

  • Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven | Paul Ford

  • Innovators Get Better With Age | Companies make a mistake by relying too much on the innoations of the young, because Nobel laureats don't come into their prime until their 50s.

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  • Infodemics | 2009 | Passing incomplete or inaccurate information about some risk event can make people take actions that increase the damage of the event itself.

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