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Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is…
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:…
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Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea…
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Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
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If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make…
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That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break…
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We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay…
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The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how…
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When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget…
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There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
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The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their…
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When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we…
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is…
— Arthur W. Pink
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The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I…
— Arthur W. Pink
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God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He…
— Anselm of Canterbury
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We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
— Samuel Johnson
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
— John Calvin
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