I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
Arianna HuffingtonRead
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.
Interpretation
Attempting to hide the truth will only lead to its eventual revelation.
This quote suggests that the truth has a way of surfacing regardless of efforts to conceal it. It highlights the futility of trying to suppress what is inherently true, emphasizing that honesty and transparency are ultimately more powerful than deception.
In practice
During a discussion on integrity in leadership, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of honesty.
I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.
Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.
An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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