"The essence of procrastination lies in not doing……" — James Surowiecki
"The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises.…
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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