“The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.”

in Herbert Simon,Intuition,Knowledge,Life,Psychology,Quotes,Science

-Herbert Simon

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“Whatever you have, spend less.”

in Character,Economics,Life,Money,Quotes,Samuel Johnson,Success,Wisdom

-Samuel Johnson

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“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

in Humor,Knowledge,Life,Quotes,Will Rogers,Wisdom

-Will Rogers

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“Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized. They look like idiots to their cousins, they look like idiots to their peers, they need courage to continue. No confirmation comes to them, no validation, no fawning students, no Nobel, no Shnobel. ‘How was your year?’ brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside. Then bang, the lumpy event comes that brings them grand vindication. Or it may never come.”

in Creativity,Economics,Happiness,Integrity,Money,Nassim Nicholas Taleb,Psychology,Quotes,Success

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 87.

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“Love truth, but pardon error.”

in Friendship,Life,Management,Quotes,Relationships,Voltaire

-Voltaire

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“Many shall be restored that now are fallen, and many shall fall that now are in honor.”

in Happiness,Horace,Life,Philosophy,Quotes,Success,Wisdom

-Horace

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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

in Annie Dillard,Life,Philosophy,Quotes,Success,Time

-Annie Dillard

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