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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.