There is another way to think about conversation, one that is less about information and more about creating a space to be explored. You are interested in hearing about how another person approaches things–her or her opinions and associations. In this kind of conversation– I think of it as 'whole person conversation'–if things go quiet for a while you look deeper, you don't look away or text a friend. You try to read your friends in a different way. Perhaps you look into their faces or attend to their body language. Or you allow for silence. Perhaps when we talk about 'conversations' being boring, such a frequent complaint, we are saying how uncomfortable we are with stillness. . Sherry Turkle
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
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Kevin Durant
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.
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Vince Lombardi Jr.
You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.
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Charbel Tadros
From the dawn of civilization it is the will of Man that has propelled him forward. Man progressed from the brute in the jungle to the sophisticated being in the boardrooms of the top most organisations of the world. Man is obsessive. If Man puts...
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Avijeet Das
Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard
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Kandarp Gandhi
More Quotes By Sherry Turkle
The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get others to like him that it has the opposite...
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer...
