QUOTES: Greatest quotes from visionaries for you to get inspired.​
Socrates
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Self - Improvement
The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
All creatures on this planet resist change.
Imagine a mighty elephant that stops resisting change once humans domesticate it. Innumerable studies have been done on mice and how they easily become conditioned.
Humans are no different.
We are pre-disposed to fight against change. Once a habit gets formed, it comes in the way to change: the great human comfort zone.
Change starts when you make an effort to ignore the past. Please do not dismiss the past; learn, but don't let it come in the way of the future.
Steve Jobs
2008
Self - Improvement
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Unsurprisingly, many great visionaries have exhorted us to discover our true selves.
Stephen Covey alludes to finding the paradigm while describing principles of personal vision.
Sadhguru's fundamental premise has been to discover oneself and not be driven either by the physical body or the mind.
Martin Luther King
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Management
Change does not roll in on the wheel of inevitabiliy, but comes through continious struggle.
MLK was leading the civil rights movement in the US at the time.
Comparing the monumental change he was trying to bring to anything today, especially in an organisational context, would be a travesty.
That said, it is an inspiring quote worth taking note of for anyone trying to transform anything.
Changing anything is hard. Humans are creatures of habit. Hence, changing a process or a practice is always an enormous endeavor.
Steve Jobs
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CX
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
This is profound. If Steve Jobs had been conducting user interviews of MP3 player users, we would never have had an iPod.
I encourage current UX/CX designers to apply common sense, execute the change, and then fine-tune it based on user feedback.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Management
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
This quote is attributed to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in World War II and a two-time US president.
Planning is critical for success in an organizational context, whether leading a company team or a program.
The best of plans go haywire during execution. What comes in handy is the months of preparation, endless hours of thinking, weighing various options, and getting the teams behind the mission.
Steve Jobs
1985
Management
You know who the best managers are?They're the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.
A high-performing individual needs to be surrounded by like-minded people and led by a competent manager who can earn the respect of others and be viewed as a role model.
Take any one ingredient out, and you are looking at a sub-optimal team.