Maxims

Fake it to Make it. (Rachel)

Don’t drag your feet when you work. (Cathy)

Warm-ups in everything you do. (Peggy’s “over the top” exercise)

Leadership is a process of action, reflection, education. (Blueprint)

Ideas that spread, win. (TED)

Life is a big pattern of patterns. (Paula Varsano)

Rewiring is happening all the time. (David Presti)

Review to renew and rediscover. (Confucius)

10,000 hours of practice makes perfect. (Outliers)

Your thoughts create your life. (Hill)

Wisdom is timeless.

Communication is not self-evident. (Michael Lin)

It’s more important to learn to think like a professor rather than think about what a professor thought (George Chang)

Say “Hi” to people. (Allen Huang)

Try a little something “red” everyday. (Edward Sun)

Business. Money. Relations. It’s the same everywhere. (Shubin)

Tests are cumulative because life is cumulative. (George Chang)

Economics is the study of scarcity and trade-offs (opportunity cost, diminishing returns) involved in human decisions intending to maximize happiness. (Sean Penn of “Econ for Dummies”)

Life is only as exciting as I am excited about it.  (Michael Lin, 6/19/09)

Pick the fruit–it’s a balance of perfect striving and wonder in the present being. (Dan Hess)

There is never NO COST to not doing something. (Galina Hale)

Theory: Sweeping, probabalistic, causal, predictive, rigorous, falsifiable roadmap. (Steven Fish)

Looking for love in all the wrong places–effort goes a long way. (Rina)

Enoughness. (Nurredina Workman)

Be proactive, not reactive. (Rita Zhang)

Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables. (Michael Pollan)


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