Michael Harris Quotes

#1. I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 - William Howe, July 16, 1777

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#2. The more you can learn and the more knowledge you can retain, the more effective you'll become at what it is you choose to do.

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#3. if salespeople want to sell value and differentiate their product, they have to deliver insight that will reframe the buying vision so buyers end up with the solution that helps them overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

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#4. We are now becoming, by Blackmore's estimation, teme machines - servants to the evolution of our own technologies.

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#5. It's hard to remember what we loved about absence; we never ask for our deprivation back.

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#6. Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.

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#7. Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

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#8. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.

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#9. Without absence in our lives, we risk fooling ourselves into believing that things (a message from a lover, the performance of a song, the face of a human body) matter less. De

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#10. Our generation seems to be facing a crisis of critique. We want to know what's best, we want to know where to eat and what movie to see, but we've begun to forget that real opinion, real critique, must always come out of an absence of voices - from a singular subjective viewpoint. You

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#11. Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

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#12. to Picasso, computers were useless since "they can only give you answers

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#13. If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

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#14. we aren't lonely because we are alone; we are lonely because we have failed in our solitude.

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#15. Despite the universality of this change, which we're all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I'll be most sorry about. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn't see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the idle mind of the adolescent.

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#16. Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.

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#17. terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation

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#18. The word"boundaries" often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the"norm" because we think of it as being"risky" or because we're afraid of failure. It's easy to settle for average or normal. That's why the majority of us do!

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#19. The real trouble with Wikipedia lies exactly where its strength lies: its democratic impulse. In an arena where everyone's version of the facts is equally valid, and the opinions of specialists become marginalized, corporate and politicized interests are potentially empowered.

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#20. If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.

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#21. But nothing could stand before our lads, they routed them from the Meadow, & all afterwards was a mere Chace, so far I saw."1 - James Parker, September 11, 1777

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#22. Men at the Proving Ground were giving their lives for their country. Without knowing they were doing it. The

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#23. Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.

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#24. To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.

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#25. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset

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#26. The brightest moments of human discovery are those unplanned and random instants when you thumb through a strange book in a foreign library or talk auto maintenance with a neuroanatomist. We need our searches to include cross-wiring and dumb accidents, too, not just algorithmic surety.

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