Laszlo Barabasi Quotes

#1. The real legacy of the Internet is not the birth of thousands of new online companies but the transformation of existing businesses. We can see its signature on everything from mom-and-pop stores to large multinational agglomerates.

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#2. 80 percent of profits are produced by only 20 percent of the employees, 80 percent of customer service problems are created by only 20 percent of consumers, 80 percent of decisions are made during 20 percent of meeting time, and so on. It

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#3. He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife - pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want.

Rick Riordan

#4. Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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#5. Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Lemony Snicket

#6. The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

James Rainwater

#7. Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

Ellis Peters

#8. A string of recent breath-taking discoveries has forces us to acknowledge that amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution of all the complex networks that surround us.

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#9. It doesn't matter if there are 20, 40, 100, or 500 people there. It doesn't matter how many people. You've got to perform to those people because they've come.

Ladyhawke

#10. I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Dave Grohl

#11. Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Roger Rosenblatt

#12. Now some they do and some they don't
And some you just can't tell
And some they will and some they won't
With some it's just as well.

Roger Hodgson

#13. Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#14. There is no bigger sin than men cruelly abusing their power to keep their own nation in servitude, he said, and he did not need to explain who the sinners were.

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#15. Let's explore something in deeper level by asking a question.

Deyth Banger

#16. There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. A subtle urge to synchronize is pervasive in nature. Indeed, it drives the firing of thousands of pacemaker cells in the heart and brings into synchrony the menstrual cycles of women who live together for long periods of time.

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#18. Networks do not offer a miracle drug, a strategy that makes you invincible in any business environment. The truly important role networks play is in helping existing organizations adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. The very concept of network implies a multidimensional approach.

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#19. The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.

W. Edwards Deming

#20. Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

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#21. The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.

Wislawa Szymborska

#22. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Daisaku Ikeda

#23. Time is our most valuable nonrenewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.

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