quarta-feira, abril 25, 2012
A virus
"Sometimes, it would seem, the way we see others depends on nothing more substantial than the way others see others
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Social proof is [...] as a virus of affiliation - and occours in ambiguous social situations when one is unable to determine what is, precisely, the 'done thing'".
Kevin Dutton, Flipnosis
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Social proof is [...] as a virus of affiliation - and occours in ambiguous social situations when one is unable to determine what is, precisely, the 'done thing'".
Kevin Dutton, Flipnosis
terça-feira, abril 24, 2012
Pois
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all
Peter Drucker
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Peter Drucker
quinta-feira, abril 12, 2012
Roubado
"Rei destas terras, quero vingança"
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segunda-feira, abril 09, 2012
Ask any
"Newborn babies have much in common with psychopaths. Ask any parent.
They lack empathy, are superficially charming, possess not the sligthest sense of the consequences of their actions, and are out purely for themselves
[they have] the power to mesmerize with their eyes. This latter observation is well known to anyone who has ever caught the eye of an infant and attempted to stare them out".
Flipnosis, Kevin Dutton
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They lack empathy, are superficially charming, possess not the sligthest sense of the consequences of their actions, and are out purely for themselves
[they have] the power to mesmerize with their eyes. This latter observation is well known to anyone who has ever caught the eye of an infant and attempted to stare them out".
Flipnosis, Kevin Dutton
Se até esses
"...once these good-hearted people get the power, they often turn nasty and selfish - a problem apparently magnified when they feel insecure or incompetent".
The No Asshole rule, Robert Sutton
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The No Asshole rule, Robert Sutton
O que quer que
"Dismiss whatever insults your soul".
Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman
domingo, abril 08, 2012
Guerreiro
"Charles Baudelaire declared that all jobs were soul-destroying, aside from that of being a poet and - even less plausibly - a 'warrior'.
When Marcel Duchamp visited New York in 1915, he described Greenwich Village as 'a true Bohemia' because the place was, he said, 'full of people doing nothing'".
Status anxiety, Alain de Botton
Mas só o princípio
"Hatred of the bourgois is the beginning of wisdom".
Gustave Flaubert
Noruega
"The desire for high status is never stronger than when being ordinary entails leading a life which fails to cater to a median need for dignity and comfort".
Status anxiety, Alain de Botton
sábado, abril 07, 2012
Admirável
"Book-keeping by double-entry is admirable, and records several things in an exact manner".
Thomas Carlyle
Ah, a consciência...
"It is easy to understand the wish for a system, be it educational or economic, that assures us that we can pick out the worthy candidates from a classroom or society and, in turn, can walk past the suffering of the losers with good conscience".
Status anxiety, Alain de Button
Hamartia
"... at once hesitant to condemn the hero for what had befallen him and humbled by a recognition of how easily they too might one day be ruined if ever they were presented with a situation similar to that with which the hero had been faced.
The tragedy would leave them sorrowful before the difficulties of leading a good life and modest before those who had failed at the undertaking [...]
A tragic hero had to be someone who was neither especially good nor especially bad, an everyday, ordinary kind of human being [...] a person who combined a range of good qualities with certain defects, perhaps excessive pride or anger or impulsiveness.
This character would then make a spectacular mistake, not from any profoundly evil motive, but from what Aristotle termed in Greek a hamartia or lapse of judgement, a temporary blindness, or a factual or emotional slip.
And from this would flow the most terrible peripeteia or reversal of fortune, in the course of which the hero would lose everything he held dear and almost certainly pay with his life [...]
We were to leave the theatre disinclined ever again to adopt an easy, superior tone towards the fallen and the failed".
Status anxiety, Alain de Botton
Só raramente
"...what is best in other people only rarely has the chance to express itself in the sort of achievements that attract and hold our ordinary, vagabond attention".
Status anxiety, Alain de Botton
Perdentes
"The successful alpinists of organizational pyramids may not be the best at their jobs, but those who have best mastered a range of dark political arts in which civilized life does not usually offer instruction".
Status anxiety, Alain de Botton
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Status anxiety, Alain de Botton
