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The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong. John Dickerson

Work Culture Disrespect Extra Approach Signals Only Wrong Hours Also Undermining Go Motivation Anticipating Sends Teamwork

If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that. James Carville

Government Gay You People Better Path Rich Believe Our Our Choice Signals Obamacare Guns Civilization Never Sin Coming End America Any Going Being Want Taxes Rich People Cutting Choice Your

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. David Ogilvy

People Enemy Dangerous Research Signals Generals Advertising Ignore Who

Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy. Nicholas Kristof

Construction Space Rare Diversity Marked Wilderness Bitten Signals Status Would Constitute About Lawyers Economic Most Make None Sip Trails America Get Same Shorts Workers Skunk Usual Streams

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. Sonia Sotomayor

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. Adam Michnik

You Signals More Outside Powerful Likely Blind Deaf Much

'Mr. Robot,' in particular, signals the rise of a fresh post-Occupy portrayal of the wealth gap. No longer is the story of income inequity delivered via a well-meaning, crushingly earnest indie film by John Sayles or in a single laugh line on 'Roseanne.' Alissa Quart

Wealth Single Robot Earnest Laugh Signals John Indie Indie Film Rise Delivered Longer Particular Well-Meaning Inequity Fresh Line Via Story Gap Film Income Portrayal

As human beings, it is natural for us to pick up signals about what is valued in our environment and to want to embody those values. But being superior and infallible isn't something to strive for. Those values do not encourage people to do what is good for their organization in the long run. Carol S. Dweck

Good Natural People Organization Values Superior Long Our Those Signals Valued Strive Run Embody About Something Long Run Pick Environment Infallible Encourage Up Human Being Want Human Beings Us Beings

At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism. Charles Platt

Experience Perception Pay Frame Extreme Signals Willing Runs Wear Rate New Audiences Normal Fitted Via Movie In-Depth Which Realism Theaters Infrared Depth Lenses Depths Viewers Premium Shown Twice

A lot of those early indie movies - 'Smoke Signals,' 'Eat Drink Man Woman,' 'Boyz n the Hood' - there was a different aesthetic; everyone was telling stories that were like, 'This is new and different. Let's do it.' Chris Doubek

What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it. Christina Binkley

Suits Men Clothes Signals About Shirts Famous Cut Certain VIP

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. David Letterman

Guidelines Signals New Traffic York Just New York Rough

If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself a 'sanctuary city' also signals to a lot of people that you are protecting hard-core criminals, which I don't, and I don't believe in. Eric Garcetti

You Yourself People Immigration Police Believe Our Criminals Signals Immigration Laws City Laws Federal Police Department Also Protecting Does Lot Department Which Sanctuary Declaring Then Enforce Means

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire. Frances Beinecke

Future Communicate Better Fire Power Energy Setting Too Digging Our Ways Signals Stuck Better Ways Smoke Always Hand Than Gestures Fuel Ground Fossil Fossil Fuel Need

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself. Helen Fisher

Good Woman Women Men Herself Spend Pleased Signals Visual Feels Look She Trying Sending Who Lives Right

The list of traceability for some automotive components needs to be rethought for new technologies to send adequate signals about the strengthening of the value chains in North America. Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Needs Value Adequate Signals Components Some About New North North America America New Technologies Send List Chains Technologies Strengthening

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. James Fallows

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time. James Gleick

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives. Jean-Marie Lehn

First Rule Paper Signals Steroid Scientific Shifts Reported Derivatives

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence. John Gerzema

Generation Strong Will Values Signals Emergence More Structures Masculine Highly Traditional Continue Up Influence Gains Even Challenged Grows Societies

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