Top 25 Mcardle Quotes
#2. If you are loving, you will attract love. If you are kind, you will attract kindness. If your heart is at peace, you will create an aura of peacefulness around you.
Debasish Mridha
#3. A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story.
Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#4. It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.
Megan McArdle
#5. The secret to catching your mistakes quickly is simple: treat outside information as if it were inside information. When someone tells you you're off track, don't look for reasons why they may be wrong; listen for reasons why they might be right.
Megan McArdle
#6. I'm a man. Why would you expect anything else? We're meant to be easy and predictable. You are woman. You possess what we seek. We cannot afford to confuse your minds if we are to attain what we seek. Therefore, we elect to be easy and predictable.
Jack Dancer
#7. The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.
Megan McArdle
#8. Learning to fail well means learning to understand your mistakes, because unless you know what went wrong, you may do the wrong things to correct it.
Megan McArdle
#9. Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.
Megan McArdle
#10. object is to take lots of small, manageable risks, because that, he says, is the only way to figure out what really works.
Megan McArdle
#11. the people who dislike challenges think that talent is a fixed thing that you're either born with or not. The people who relish them think that it's something you can nourish by doing stuff you're not good at.
Megan McArdle
#12. Dweck encourages parents and teachers to praise children for their effort, rather than their intelligence, talent, or looks.
Megan McArdle
#13. We have made it impossible for children to fall very far - and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
Megan McArdle
#14. Most of the time you can get away with launching a terrible product, or with not washing your hands, but one time in a thousand, you will kill a person, or a company.
Megan McArdle
#15. Writers who don't produce copy - or leave it so long that they couldn't possibly produce something good - are giving themselves the perfect excuse for not succeeding.
Megan McArdle
#16. Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
Ramana Maharshi
#17. Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.
Megan McArdle
#18. I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.
Andre Ward
#19. My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
Gene Wolfe
#20. If they're forced into a challenge they don't feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call "self-handicapping": deliberately doing things that will hamper their performance in order to give themselves an excuse for not doing well.
Megan McArdle
#22. I swear on my life, one day I'll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.
Ransom Riggs
#23. Most of all, learning to fail well means overcoming our natural instincts to blame someone - maybe ourselves - whenever something goes wrong.
Megan McArdle
#24. Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Daniel Libeskind
#25. fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.
Megan McArdle
