Megan Mcardle Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Through books we get to live a second life while here on earth.

Teresa Cannady

#7. 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

#8. object is to take lots of small, manageable risks, because that, he says, is the only way to figure out what really works.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Dweck encourages parents and teachers to praise children for their effort, rather than their intelligence, talent, or looks.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Never fear being wrong, just staying wrong.

W.M. Driscoll

#14. Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

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#15. Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw
if uncorrected
may prove to be the more catastrophic.

Denis Hayes

#16. God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.

Charles H. Kraft

#17. 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.

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#18. Most of all, learning to fail well means overcoming our natural instincts to blame someone - maybe ourselves - whenever something goes wrong.

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#19. Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.

Mary Balogh

#20. We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Don Cheadle

#21. fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.

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#22. Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Michael Caine