...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.
Price PritchettWe can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.
Price PritchettYou canโt bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like thereโs been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time itโs off courseโit โfailsโ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them.
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