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What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you. Sherry Turkle
You Phone Light Seductive Blackberry About Red Red Light Know Texting Want Wants Little Who Keeping
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much. Sherry Turkle
Too Much Too Teenagers Would Rather Feel Talk Calls Reveal Text Than Much
There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent! Sherry Turkle
Technology Phones School Opportunity Parents Looking Eye Eye Contact Parent Pick Put Contact Make Texting Up Families Child Children Meals Moments Include Away Need
Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do. Sherry Turkle
Conversation Most Human Thing
You'll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don't like to be around those kinds of people. Sherry Turkle
You People Lonely Validation Those Kinds Feel Like Around Always Need
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire. Sherry Turkle
Buy Great People Fire Increasingly Machines Seem Idea Children Elderly Really Companions Start Playing
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.' Sherry Turkle
Fight Book Phone Wake Up Will Think Rather Check Messages Another Leaving Amazon Wake Clock Up Than Impulse Middle Room Use Alarm Night Number
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. Shinichi Suzuki
Knowledge Thousand Thousand Times Plus Ten Times Skill
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Shinichi Suzuki
Life Love Wisdom Truth Man Beauty Virtue Direction Look Ultimate
The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents. Shinichi Suzuki
Fate Parents His Child Hands
We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life. Srikumar Rao
Life Attitude Think Ability Some More Outsiders Craft Dependent Where Much Fulfilled Bring Extent
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it. Srikumar Rao
Good You Change Yourself Money Try Will About True Make Very Effort Behavioral Succeed Actually Bring Violence Universally Chances
Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed. Srikumar Rao
You Be Happy Happy Will Live Our Entire Entire Lives Something Most Model Get Order Happens Flawed Then Us Function Based Lives Fundamentally Suggesting
If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization. Srikumar Rao
Change Culture Organization Impact Executive His Team Help Her
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. Srikumar Rao
Positive Culture Motherhood Thinking Our Positive Thinking Enshrined Attacking Firmly Knocking Like Pie Little Apple Apple Pie
Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to train yourself to do this. You have been conditioned to think of things as bad or good. You can de-condition yourself. It is neither easy nor fast but it is possible. Srikumar Rao
Life Good You Yourself Labeling Think Possible Bad Neither Easy Through Sure Without Go Been Nor Conditioned Train Happens Fast Actually Things
When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there. Srikumar Rao
Saying You People Leader Say Recognise Would Phrase Somehow Inspiring Self Like Perhaps Operative Self-Serving Get Want Whether Them Really Inherently Serving
I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product. Srikumar Rao
You Leader Believe Inspiring Goal Being Aspire By-Product
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction. Srikumar Rao
You Goals Focus Bad Give Direction Only Obsessed Ambitious Being Them Should Regularly Even Extent Set
Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future. Srikumar Rao
Future Balance World Stress Pressure Before Situation Out About Bosses More Facing Tendencies Tends Leads Over Know Likely Executive Greater How Lot Than Authoritarian Improve Which Turn Successfully Certainly Businesses Many Now Ever Near Cope Bring Competitive
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies. Srikumar Rao
Business Human Being Big Address Machine Students Supply Talent Schools Fresh Big Companies Human Being Companies Level Need
In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders. Srikumar Rao
Financial Responsibility Stand For Something Sole Must Something Results Shareholders Terms Than Bigger Stand Dedicated Companies Company Belief Larger Reject Milton
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such. Srikumar Rao
You Experience Key Mercy Feeling Labeling Control Bad No Control Something Bad Thing Outside Almost Over Powerless Forces Label Happens Which Much Pawn Thing Guarantees
The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool. Srikumar Rao
Life Knowledge Living Tool Our Responsible Powerful Powerful Tool Most Most Powerful
Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.' Srikumar Rao
Work People Vision Ambition Lead Greater Personal Want CEO Company Here
I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment. Srikumar Rao
You Assumption Corporate Environment Survive Person To Survive Challenging Need
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