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I call these lessons ‘learned on the fly’ because the knowledge gained from the experiences connected with them were very much akin to the spirit of the centerfielder in baseball running backward at full speed, looking towards the heavens, trying...

The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

Women in the online gaming community have been harassed, threatened, and driven out. Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist media critic who documented such incidents, received support for her work, but also, in the words of a journalist, 'another wave of real...

Men Explain Things to Me

Instead of negotiating or begging for mercy, [my brother Damascene] challenged them to kill him. "Go ahead," he said. "What are you waiting for? Today is my day to go to God. I can feel Him all around us. He is watching, waiting to take me home. Go a...

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Anton Ego: You are Monsieur Linguini? Linguini: Uh, hello. Anton Ego: Pardon me for interrupting your premature celebration, but I thought it only fair to give you a sporting chance as you are new to this game. Linguini: Uh... game? Anton Ego: Yes, a...

Ratatouille

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

The Changeling

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Cryptonomicon

People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play very well but have no goal in focus!

Daily Drive 365

Any game plan? (Xypher) Don't die. (Sin) I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher)

Devil May Cry

The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Dodger

Stop the blame game; you can't win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way... Don't join them!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

Double Trouble

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Ender's Game

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

Ender's Game

who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

Ender's Game

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Ender's Game

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Ender's Game

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

Ender's Game

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

Ender's Game

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Ender's Game