The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.
Interpretation
Great ideas provoke strong, conflicting emotions and thoughts.
This quote by Reid Hoffman suggests that the most powerful ideas challenge our perceptions and evoke a mix of attraction and resistance. When an idea is truly impactful, it generates enthusiasm and skepticism simultaneously, prompting deeper reflection and discussion.
In practice
In a brainstorming session where diverse opinions are encouraged.
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
What one does easily, one does well.
It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'
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