- Nov 07, 2020
Look Quotes
On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.
The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of a tech startup should look like: exposed beams, frosted glass, a big atrium, modern art hanging in the lobby.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
GE rolled out a popular TV ad campaign in 2015 explaining why youthful techies should give the 'digital industrial' giant a second look.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go build it, hiring new people and/or taking people off other jobs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
- Cash Register
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020