In crises, people need to hear one or two simple messages to act on – not a confusing list. Through your communication, you also need to project certainty – and the fact that you have a plan (even if it's not fully formulated). Your team need to believe that they, and you, are going to get the job done.
— Pepyn Dinandt“My own life has improved in pretty much every way. These days, 95 percent of the time I get eight hours of sleep a night. Now, instead of waking up to the sense that I have to trudge through activities, I wake up feeling joyful about the day's possibilities. And I'm also better able to recognize red flags and rebound from setbacks. It's like being dialed into a different channel that has less static.”— Arianna Huffington
Co-Founder of The Huffington Post & Wellness Advocate
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I don't think we can love God more than our greatest good. I think He is our greatest good. I don't think we can desire Him more than happiness. I think that ultimately, He is our happiness.
— J. BudziszewskiProfessor of Government and Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin
Ultimately, there are no values in the secular world that can replace the complete happiness people find in the vision of the face of God.
— J. BudziszewskiProfessor of Government and Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin
If I practice friendship for the sake of my friend, I will have pleasure in it. If I practice friendship for the sake of pleasure, in the long run I'll have neither pleasure nor friendship.
— J. BudziszewskiProfessor of Government and Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin
People do confuse pleasure for happiness, but as Mortimer J. Adler put it, there is a big difference between a having a good time and having a good life. Pleasure is best understood not as the very good itself, but as a by-product of pursuing the things that really are good.
— J. BudziszewskiProfessor of Government and Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin
To be completely happy is the same as to be fulfilled, to flourish, or to thrive – to enjoy complete well-being, to have our complete and final good. We seek happiness for its own sake, not to get something else. This is our goal and deepest longing.
— J. BudziszewskiProfessor of Government and Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin
In some ways, emulating birds would have held us back – yes it would have given us the drive and motivation, but we had to forget about flapping to develop the combustion engine driven plane!
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
An example is when you catch a cricket ball your brain is doing the equivalent of solving differential equations, but you do it unconsciously.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
Birds are not born with an innate genetically determined knowledge of constellations. What they do has been brilliantly shown in an experiment by Stephen Emlen.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
I feel it's such a wonderful thing to be able to leave the tyranny of gravity to leave the ground and fly wherever you will.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
The question to be asked is why doesn't everybody fly?
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
It's like a tripod. Without one of the three, the whole marketing strategy collapses.
— Erik Huberman75% of people won't purchase from a brand they don't inherently trust.
— Erik HubermanThere are two different types of founders. A wartime founder – when things are tough, they act and a poor peacetime founder – it is really fun or nice to work for.
— Erik HubermanYou can't just market your way out of a bad product.
— Erik HubermanMarketing is not going to solve a bad product, but it will be an easier and smoother with a good product, with repeat purchases and word of mouth as being the two things that are critical.
— Erik Huberman