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Paid
from the neck down.
Pain is
brief - pride is forever.
Pain is
the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.
Pain is
weakness leaving the body.
Pain
makes man think; thought makes man wise; wisdom makes life endurable.
Pain that
cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our despair there
comes a wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Painting
is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Paintings
are lies that tell the truth.
Pandering
to people who don’t pay attention.
Panic is
not evidence of danger; it’s evidence of panic.
Paralyze
their resistance with your persistence.
Parenting
is not a popularity contest – but grandparenting is.
Parenting really is a heartache business. At
the end of the day, there is no end of the day.
Parents:
I was once their dream; now they are mine.
Parents
should learn to love the child they have, not the child they wish they had.
Pareto’s
Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the
inputs.
Parkinson’s law:
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Part of
being an adult is developing the capacity to care about other people and to
sacrifice for them, over and over.
Part of
the problem with perfectionism is that, by nature, you’re always failing.
Part of you pours out of
me in these lines from time to time.
Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that
criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you
think your neighbors have too many kids.
Passion
is momentary, love is enduring.
Passion
without precision is chaos.
Past a certain point of collaboration,
I lose the belief that a piece of work is truly and fully mine.
Past
results are no guarantee of future performance.
Past sins
never vanish, they simply wait.
Pathogens
are inevitable, but that they turn into pandemics is not.
Patience
can be learned.
Patience is
a professional liability.
Patience is
an overrated virtue.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Patience is worth the most when it’s the most
difficult to find.
Patience was no answer to injustice. (MLK)
Patience to
go slow to go fast.
Patience
will achieve more than force.
Patton: Don’t like to pay twice for same real estate.
Pay any
price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend.
Pay attention to where the power lies.
Pay
peanuts and you get monkeys.
Pay your debts. It’s never about
the money, it’s always about the disappointment and betrayal.
Paying
for his own beating.
Peeing on
the electric fence.
Peerspective.
Peloton
is like the best parts of community—but without the people!
Pentimento: The paint becomes opaque and you can see
beneath the paint the lines that were in the layers down below.
People
are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't
find them, make them.
People are capable, at any time in their
lives, of doing what they dream of.
People
are disturbed not by what happens to them, but by their view of what happens to
them. (Epictetus)
People are either charming or tedious.
People are going to
believe what they need to believe.
People
are herd animals – heat begets heat.
People
are more important than things.
People
are most afraid of things (like technology) that they depend on, but can’t
entirely control
People
are not afraid of change. They fear the
unknown.
People are so busy protecting what is that they
no longer see what can be.
People
are starving for spontaneity.
People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial
things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly
seem to notice.
People
are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
People
ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
People
buy stories, not things.
People
change for two main reasons: either their minds have been opened or their
hearts have been broken.
People
choose with their hearts and then use numbers to justify their choices.
People
commit to other people, not to institutions.
People
die for these little pieces of cloth.
People do
not buy from clowns.
Pe
People do not follow robots.
People do
not lack strength; they lack will.
People do what is easy
more often than they do what is right.
People do
what you inspect, not what you expect.
People
don’t always know where they’re going; they just know they don’t want to go
there alone.
People
don’t buy what you do; people buy why you do it.
People
don't care who made the first one. They
only want to know who makes the best one.
People
don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.
People
don’t embrace change for the sake of change.
They have to believe in it.
People
don’t fake depression, they fake being OK.
People
don't give to orgs because orgs have needs; they give because orgs meet needs.
People
don’t know what they like. They only like what they know.
People
don’t know what they want until they’ve seen it.
People don't know what they want until you show it
to them.
People
don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.
People
don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.
People
don’t like change, but they can manage change. They can’t handle uncertainty.
It’s the leader’s job to eliminate uncertainty.
People don’t rely only
on their own judgments; they think in social networks.
People
don’t resist change. They resist being changed.
People
don’t want to be marketed to; they want to be communicated with.
People don’t want to
negotiate the price of things they buy every day.
People feel good or bad
about a deal – not because of the money – but because of how you arrive at the deal.
People
finding out they are not destined to be who they were convinced they were.
People
get outlandish when they’re tired.
People
get the history they deserve.
People
get used to change when change is expected.
People
hope vaguely but dread precisely.
People in America aren’t stupid, but they are
busy.
People in wood houses shouldn’t light matches.
People
know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
People
learn more from observation than from conversation.
People like us, do things
like this. (Seth Godin)
People
look at the living and wish for the dead.
People
may or may not say what they mean or want.
But they always say something designed to get what they want.
People today
increasingly move from online (discovery) to on-air.
People
need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed.
People need to have a sense of possibility.
People
never forget how you make them feel.
People
never learn anything from a happy ending.
People
notice only what you tell them to notice. And then only if you remind them.
People of
ferocious emptiness.
People
only see the things for which they are looking.
People
overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in 10
years
People
passionate about the premise and the promise.
People
process the world through story.
People
protect what they love. They love what they understand. They understand what
they are taught. (Cousteau)
People
quickly forget how fast you did a job - but they always remember how
well you did it.
People
respond to incentives. The rest is
commentary.
People
respond well to people who are sure of what they want.
People
see only what they are prepared to see.
People
seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of
character.
People
seldom want to walk over you until you lie down.
People
(entrepreneurs) always take their needs into consideration, but rarely their
abilities.
People
think luck is something that comes to them, but it never does. You have to go out and catch it, and grab it
with your own two hands.
People think that local media is this one-ton
gorilla, but in fact, it’s 2,000 one-pound monkeys.
People
today worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship.
People trust people more than
brands.
People
understand energy better than facts.
People
want an eagle to lead them, but usually a chicken is running against a duck.
People
want talent, but all too often they can't accept those things that go along
with it.
People
were blown around the country like dust on the wind.
People were going to believe what they needed to believe.
People were to be given authority in this new order not in recognition of their gifts, hard work, accomplishments, or contributions to society, but in inverse proportion to the disadvantages their group had suffered, as defined by radical ideologues.
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
People
won’t remember what you said, but how you made them feel.
People
who attack others aren’t wise, they’re afraid.
People
who become legends in their own time usually have very little time left.
People who buy things usually
say they're great, they're invested in them, take their opinion on the product
or procedure with a grain of salt.
People
who can’t control their own emotions try to control other people’s behavior.
People
who come from backgrounds suffused with love, praise and security often have
the ability to dismiss criticism out of hand; people who don’t often devote
great effort to building structures of refutation.
People
who don’t experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection.
People
who eat white bread have no dreams.
People
who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to
ours. The inference is false; a gift
confers no rights.
People
who have no weaknesses are terrible.
People
who have severe mental disabilities often argue with one another because
arguing turns out to be one of the least cognitively challenging ways to
interact.
People
who live entirely by the fertility of their imagination are fascinating,
brilliant, charming and not fit to live with.
People
who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and
people who wonder what happened.
People
who once believed nothing could happen now believe anything can happen.
People
who not only manage change, but have an appetite for it.
People
who say they’re not afraid of anything are liars. I’m afraid every time I go up there, not of
being hit, but of failure.
People who tell you to “follow your
passions” are already rich.
People
who want their love easy don’t really want love.
People
who will lie for you will lie to you.
People
will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
People
wish to be liked, not endured.
People
won’t behave if they have nothing to lose.
People
work for money. If you want loyalty, buy
a dog.
People’s greatest
strengths can also be their greatest weaknesses.
Perception
is discontinuous. You are what you are, whatever it is. And then there’s an
aha! moment when people say you’re something else.
Perfect
confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. (Robert
Hughes)
Perfect
is nice, but no one can afford it. (Have a Plan B) (Zeno’s Paradox)
Perfect
results count . . . not perfect processes.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase
perfection, we can catch excellence.
Perfection
of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Perfection
of planning is a symptom of decay.
During a period of exciting discovery, growth and progress, there is no
time to plan the perfect anything. The
time for that comes later, when all the important work has been done.
Perfectionism is often an excuse
for procrastination.
Perhaps
everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless
that wants our love.
Perhaps
we miss the vision not because the vision is not there, but because we darken
the window.
Permanently
enshrined in the reptilian hall of fame.
Permission
can’t hurt, but it rarely helps. You’ve got to sell your own story
Permission
to fail without acceptance of failure.
Perpetual
optimism is a force multiplier.
Perpetual
self-improvement requires you to go on to the next big thing (for new
“challenges”) even if doing so means being promoted beyond your natural
abilities.
Persist
or pivot.
Persistence
beats resistance.
Persistence
prevails when all else fails.
Persistence
with intention.
Persistence
without empathy is a form of mental illness.
Persistent
prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
Personal
data is the oil of the digital age.
Personal license is to real freedom what masturbation is to sex.
It’s not bad, but it’s not the real thing. (Bruce Springsteen)
Personality—an
unbroken series of successful gestures.
Perspective
is worth 30 IQ points.
Perspective matters …
it’s difficult to read a label from inside the bottle.
Persuasion,
not compulsion, is the only way to convince people.
Persuasion
– the purpose of argument – has been replaced with public shaming. Facts are
replaced with feelings. Ideas are replaced with identity. Excellence with
equity.
Pessimism
always sounds more sophisticated than optimism.
Pessimistic,
joyless, deracinated, trapped in his own charmlessness and isolation, with a
yearning vulnerability, a brooding self-hatred and an eye that could cut
through any hint of phoniness or complacency, he had the psychological acuity
of an artist – or a sociopath.
Pets: a worry sponge.
Pets: responsibility without romance.
Philosophy
teaches hopelessness and hopelessness teaches comedy.
Photography
is one percent talent and ninety-nine percent moving furniture.
Phygital
space
Physical
beauty is enormously, almost morbidly, important to me.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may
give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
Pick a
lane.
Pick any
2: Good, Cheap or Fast. Today Cheap and Fast = Good
Pick the
future as against the past.
Pictures are for entertainment; messages should be
delivered by Western Union.
Pilot’s
life: Long periods of boredom
interrupted by moments of sheer terror.
Pity
doesn’t alleviate oppression; it simply assuages guilt.
Pity is
not for the receiver, but for the giver.
Pity was
invented by the weak.
Pixar:
Story is the big picture. Story is process. Story is research.
Placate
the people you can't avoid and avoid the people you can't placate.
Plan for
the worst, hope for the best.
Plan for
the wreck instead of the ride (motorcycle advice)
Plan
meticulously, execute mercilessly.
Plan with
audacity and execute with vigor.
Plan the
dive and dive the plan.
Planning
for the future with
Planning: You want to avoid being at the airport when
the ship arrives.
Planning
is great; analysis is great. But most of
the time, when you get 80% of the facts, that’s really all you need. We want our people to be unafraid of making
mistakes. The only time people don’t
make mistakes is when they’re asleep.
Plans are
useless but planning is indispensable.
PLAs =
Product Listing Ads
Play has
begun to do real work.
Plausible
imp
Plenty of
babies in that bathwater
Plenty of
people got it – they just couldn’t bring themselves to believe it.
Plenty of
people might not be good at something themselves, but they know what’s good.
Poetry is about
grief. Politics is about grievance.
Poetry is
what gets lost in the translation.
Poetry is when an
emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry
makes nothing happen. (Auden)
Point of
view is worth 80 IQ points. (Alan Kay)
Point the
camera at the money.
Pokemon: a Jamaican proctologist
Political analysis is obsessed with style, strategy, and optics
at the expense of structural forces.
Politics is covered like drama, elevating the actions and
decisions of individuals. Focus less on the personalities and more on the
structural impediments to progress.
Political Hobbyism
Politicians
and diapers must be changed often and for good reason.
Politicians
make their living through addition, not subtraction.
Politics
are more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Politics generates rage, but rarely hope.
Politics
is for losers. Business is for those who
can get things done.
Politics is one of those endeavors where everyone thinks they
are qualified to have an opinion.
Politics
is show business for ugly people.
Politics is a strong and
slow boring of hard boards. (Max Weber)
Politics
is upstream of culture.
Politics
isn’t broken, it’s fixed.
Pollsters should worry that their profession might soon be
regarded as more like astrology than political science.
Poptarts:
They never get stale because they were never fresh.
Popular
theatre: It wants to tell us a truth
that we already know or a falsehood we want to believe in.
Pornography
is sensation without experience.
Portmanteau
– “Classting” – combo of “class” and “meeting”
Post-truth
is pre-fascism.
Potential
counts for nothing until it's realized.
Power
concedes nothing without a demand.
Power
concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will. (Frederick
Douglass)
Power =
Size of Platform Multiplied by Level of Persuasion Skills
Power in
a motorcycle is like revenge. You never
get enough until you get too much.
Power is
a function of value added—if you don’t add value to your employees, you’re
ignored.
Power is
delicate-you must handle it carefully.
Power is
like the skin of a leopard. Two people
can't sit on a single spot.
Power is
more important than dignity.
Power is
not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power is
nothing without control.
Power is
when your circle of influence is greater than your circle of control.
Power leaves hope in its wake.
Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.
Practice
doesn’t make perfect; practice makes permanent.
Pragmatism
– an account of the way people think.
Praise by
name, criticize by category.
Pray, as
if everything depended on God, act as if everything depended on you.
Pray for
the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Pray for
the grace of accuracy
Praying
is good but penicillin is better.
Preaching
patience in an impatient age
Precise
execution is as important as precise strategy.
Precision
guesswork.
Predicting
rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Predicting
the future based on the past is a fool’s game.
Preferring
punctuality to productivity
Prehab
over Rehab. (Tom Brady philosophy)
Pre-K
to gray
Premature
pliability, agreeableness, so that the underlying stubbornness is never
touched.
Preparation
is everything.
Presentation
is as important as context.
President
of me and my friends
Pressure
is a privilege.
Pressure
is not being prepared for what you want to do.
Pressure
is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.
Presume
not that I am the thing I was.
Preternatural
talent depends on preternatural ruthlessness
Pretty is
what it's about.
Preventing
errors isn’t always cheaper than fixing them. (depends on nature of the work)
Prevention
over cure.
Price is
what you pay; value is what you get
Price
might make a sale, but quality and service make a customer.
Pricing
transparency is to a dealer what daylight is to a vampire.
Pride
goes before a fall.
Primum non nocere. (First, do no harm.)
Printed
lyrics of a folk song are like a photograph of a bird in flight.
Privacy
is a technical, economic and aesthetic inconvenience.
Privilege:
it’s a gift you did nothing to earn.
Problem
with recovery of seriously depressed person is that they’re finally organized
enough to carry something out.
Problems do not age well.
Problems have solutions, but dilemmas have
horns.
Process
is more important than outcome.
Producers
peddling their scripts were just dogs with bones in their mouths that they
couldn’t let go of.
Producing
is an invisible art. If you're any good
at it, you leave no fingerprints.
Producing
results, not predicting results.
Productivity
gains are the foundation of prosperity.
Productivity
growth is sustainable when driven by creativity, risk-taking, innovation and
new technology. It is fleeting when it
is driven simply by downsizing and longer hours.
Productivity-the
real ability to do something combined with the desire to do it.
Productivity
should be about producing more with less rather than more with more.
Products
are not released, they escape.
Profit is
like the horizon; it always recedes as you get closer.
Profit is
not the objective of a business. The
objective is to provide a service or product that's good enough for people to
pay you a profit for providing it.
Profit-proof
Profitless
prosperity
Pr
Program
passionates
Progress
depends on the belief that things can always be better.
Progress
grows out of motion.
Progress
is direct from activity.
Progress
is not merely doing away with what is bad, it is replacing the best with
something better.
Progress
might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress,
not perfection
Project management: careful planning, followed by flawed
execution, rescued by heroic effort as the deadlines loom.
Prolonged
life has ruined more men than it ever made.
Promises
always come with peril.
Promotions
cannot produce more than a temporary kink in the sales curve.
Proof
point pudding (Ann Winblad) Polluted
pond
Propeller
heads.
Propensity to spend.
Prophets don’t get to be king. Kings have to
make choices prophets don’t.
Protect
me from what I want.
Protect
the thing that allows you to do what you do.
Prototype
for 1x, build for 10x, engineer for 100x
Proud but
not happy.
Proximity:
pushing production closer to the point of demand.
Psychoanalyst: why do you hate me? I haven’t done anything to help you.
Public
money drives out private money.
Publicity
is selling what you have – Marketing is selling what you don’t have. (The art
of the tease.)
Punk will
never die until something more dangerous comes along to replace it. (Jello
Biafra)
Purdue
- two things most important in student's time in college (1) independent
project and (2) personal connection to faculty member.
Pure
scientists have become more detached from the mundane needs of humanity, and
applied scientists have become more attached to immediate profitability.
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. (Mencken)
Purity of
Heart: To will one thing, to sell all
that you have, and take up your cross.
Purpose
without performance is just a dream.
Purveyors
of false demand.
Put a rookie
into the line-up every year.
Put
quality ahead of schedule and cost.
Put your
best people on your biggest problems
Put your
own oxygen mask on first.
Put on
your big girl panties and deal with it.
Put your
hands on some available object and make something new.
Put your
heart where your mouth is.
Put
yourself on the line.
Pygmies
placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
