7 Quotations Found

Linear games are won by working harder than others. And the harder other people work, the higher the bar. You need to work harder and harder, just to stay in the same relative position.

Asymmetry is different. Even people who understand asymmetry consistently underestimate its power.

Positive asymmetry happens when you have a lot of upside and little downside. Negative asymmetry is when you have little upside … [ Read more ]

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure, Trust

Trust works, in large measure, on assumptions about who people are, not just what they do before our eyes. We trust because we cannot observe and judge everything ourselves.

Author: Mark Kingwell | Source: The Walrus | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships, Trust

All trust is, in a sense, a handshake of predictability, and every breach of trust is devastating precisely because the other person has unpredictably withdrawn their hand.

Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Relationships, Trust

If we trust only when trust is warranted, love only when love is returned, and learn only when learning is valuable, then we abandon an essential feature of our humanity.

Author: James G. March | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Learning, Love, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Trust, Wisdom

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Author: Stephen Covey | Subjects: Communication, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Trust

The price of not being frightened is trust. And what a word that is! It’s more than confidence, more than security; it doesn’t belong to ignorance, or for that matter, to knowledge either. It is simply the ability to move out of the “I’m the center of all things” and to let something or someone take over.

Author: Fynn | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Trust

A condition of being good is that it should always be possible for you to be morally destroyed by something that you couldn’t prevent. To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, things that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you … [ Read more ]

Author: Martha Craven Nussbaum | Subjects: Good & Evil, Life & Society, Philosophy, Trust