Quotes of: Upside Keyword

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies r...

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention an...

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. "Give me the three minute version of your life story," he said. I nailed it it one then refused to throw the questi...

Hope Dies Last: Lessons in Love

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Michael Mandelbaum

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Arsenio Hall

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

Courtney Love

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed.

Chriscinthia Blount

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

Gabourey Sidibe

People transform. I've seen it over and over. As we reframe and refine our lives, we up-level in the most remarkable ways. We end up in places and with lives we never dreamed of when we were caught in our outdated assumptions that we are our personal...

Letting the Upside In: Discovering the code that grants us access to the extraordinary treasures contained within our hearts

How can you say one thing when your data shows something else. One doesn't know what was on the authors' minds and maybe they interpreted things differently but the sense is that the literature maintains an attitude somewhat like the approach of lawy...

The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

Mark Roberts

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

Jonah Goldberg

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

Waris Ahluwalia

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

George Soros

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

John Gutfreund

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

Tullian Tchividjian

The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.' It is a thought worth ponder...

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

Kid Rock

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

Shatter Me

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Bob Newhart

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

Brian O'Driscoll