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1. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln 2. When will the way we relate to each other catch up with developments in technology? 3. People dont need to be managed, they need to be unleashed. 4. Todays revolutionary advances in neuroscience will rival the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin. 5. Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. 6. There are more possible ways to connect the brains neurons than there are atoms in the universe.
JOHN RATEY (2001) THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001) PAUL CHURCHLAND (1996) RICHARD FLORIDA (2002) THEODORE ZELDIN (2003)

7. The brain is constantly trying to automate processes, thereby dispelling them from consciousness; in this way, its work will be completed faster, more effectively and at a lower metabolic level. Consciousness, on the other hand, is slow, subject to error and expensive. 8. Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neocortex, and the foundation of intelligence. 9. Connections that are used become stronger, even permanent elements of the neural circuitry. 10. Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. 11. The brain was constructed to change.
MICHAEL MERZENICH (1992) GEORGE JOHNSON (1991) JEFFREY M. SCHWARTZ AND SHARON BEGLEY (2002) JEFF HAWKINS (2004) GERHARD ROTH (2004)

12. The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. 13. We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
EDWARD DE BONO MARVIN L. MINSKY (1986)

14. One cannot teach a man anything. One can only enable him to learn from within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI (15641642)

15.What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention, determines the content and quality of life.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (2003)

16. We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. 17. If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be. 18.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (17491832) W. H. AUDEN (19071973)

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (18471922)

19. The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
TED LEVITT (CIRCA 1990)

20.Science creates a power through its knowledge, a power to do things. You are able to do things after you know something scientifically.
RICHARD FEYNMAN (1964)

21. Finding colleagues who, like lovers and friends, are inspiring rather than boring or dominating is increasingly a priority.
THEODORE ZELDIN (2002)

22. When there is a gap between ones real and declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like cuttlefish squirting out ink.
GEORGE ORWELL (19031950)

23. The challenge of using simple language is you have to know what you are talking about. 24. 25. 26.
THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS ATTEMPTS TO SIMPLIFY THEIR LANGUAGE (2002)

Be profound, be funny, or be quiet.

SOURCE UNKNOWN

To learn is to change how you think.

MICHAEL MERZENICH (1992)

Respect a man, he will do the more.

JAMES HOWELL (1594 1666)

27. Placement is your friend. When you get lost in the forest of a conversation, go back to the last time you knew your location and place yourself there.
DAVID ROCK (2003)

28. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
ANTHONY JAY

29. On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavour.
JAMES ROBERTSONS (17421814)

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What we think, we become. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO (CIRCA 400 BC) GAUTAMA BUDDHA (563 BC
TO 483

BC)

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE (1820 1904)

33. 34. Ideas are not enough. They do not last. Something practical must be done with them. 35. 36. The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELL (18721970) MARVIN BOWER, FORMER MANAGING DIRECTOR OF MCKINSEY & COMPANY (2001)

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Cells that fire together, wire together.

CARLA SCHATZ (1992)

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39. The real dividing line between the things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
ANONYMOUS

40.The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (18961940)

41. Focus is the quintessential component of superior performance in every activity, no matter what the level of skill or the age of the performer.Focus follows interest, and interest does not need coercion. A gentle hand on the steering wheel of attention will suffice.
TIM GALLWEY (2001)

42. Enthusiasm and loving encouragement establish and cultivate new synapses.
43. You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplishalone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together. 44. If you dont like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. Just do it one step at a time.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN (2000) MIKE KRZYZEWSKI, DUKE UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL COACH (2001) THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)

45. 46. 47. 48. 49. A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come.
GERALD EDELMAN (1995)

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62.As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare, King Lear Gloucester: I' th' last night's storm I such a fellow saw, Which made me think a man a worm. My son Came then into my mind, and yet my mind Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.

As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods, They kill us for their sport.

Shakespeare (King Lear Act 4, scene 1,

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Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

63. "The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it." - Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your overnight Continual improvement is an unending journey. If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system. It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together. Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

64. Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. Karen Ravn 65. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn

66. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude

determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

67. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar 68. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

69. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius 70. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

71. Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting

pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti