There's beauty in recognizing you don't
know everything you think you know.
Not exact matches
I kept
thinking that people after retiring often shared
everything they
knew for free.
The good news is that the opportunities in the stores are so additive and important (from an experience, repeated trial, and data standpoint) to Amazon's ever - increasing accumulation of behavioral information and ultimate objective of
knowing everything about us that I
think Amazon will leave things alone for a while.
«Our employees don't want to deal with bosses who
think they
know everything... They want people who are willing to listen to advice and feedback so they can actually influence the company direction.»
Lest you
think of «culture» as a luxury,
know that it is
everything to your business as an entrepreneur.
As attorney Ron Goldie says: «The sign of a successful entrepreneur is that he or she is the decision - maker, but I
think it's imperative that entrepreneurs have at least one professional who
knows everything there is to
know — one who can give them an independent assessment of the obstacles ahead.
They slipped into the unfortunate mindset that they
knew everything possible about their industry, or about the power of
thought, or about an organization.
I started
thinking I had to offer
everything to everyone, I hate to say «
no».
«I toiled over design and print, I shared my
thoughts on
everything (come on guys, you
know I'm opinionated), and I ended up with a limited collection of pieces that reflect facets of my personal style that I
think (hope, pray, hold - my - breath - and - wait - for - the - comments - on - Insta), that you'll love,» Markle wrote on her blog at the time.
You may
think that pretending you
know everything, even when you don't, makes you come across as smarter.
Being a
thought leader doesn't mean
knowing everything about every aspect of your field.
Take
everything you
thought you
knew about the stock market this year and throw it out the window.
Smarts may not be
everything, but I've never
known a successful business leader who lacked intelligence, critical -
thinking skills, and a genuine thirst for knowledge.
Your journal becomes a repository for
everything you didn't even
know you were
thinking or feeling.
Historically, there's always been a problem of lawyers
thinking they
know everything, which is in fact a problem in life with lawyers... There's been a culture of activism of making it clear to lawyers that the support is necessary and appreciated, but they weren't necessarily the leaders of the movement.
Another way to circumvent confirmation bias is to engage an advisor or mentor to be a
no - man (the antidote to a yes - man) whose role is to argue the opposite of what the entrepreneur
thinks or believes and to actively look for, and expose, the downside of
everything the entrepreneur wishes to do.
Are you one of those obsessed fans who
thinks they
know everything there is to
know about the show?
It goes against
everything we
think we
know about what a leader does.
And that, in turn, should challenge
everything we
think we
know about the economy.
«The moment you
think you
know everything about your business is the moment you lose your competitive edge,» says Pat Flynn, a San Diego - based writer who focuses on online entrepreneurship.
Lulu also issued a statement saying the company is «
known for speaking our mind and inspiring creativity and freedom of
thought in
everything we do.»
When you connect
everything you
know with who you
know (instead of what you
know or what you
think), conversations lose their color.
I will teach you how to radically boost your sales rates and commissions but, first, you need to unlearn
everything you
think you
know about closing a sale.
You will get around 225 slices of Jared's trademark wit, lateral
thinking, and his
no - holds - barred take on
everything from China's economy to Canada's housing bubble, from Dodd - Frank to Donald Trump, and from trades of the century to dirtnaps of the century.
Think you
know everything about telecommuting?
Employers, you need to stop
thinking you
know everything and start taking suggestion from workers and you wont have such higher turnover rates or protests for better wages.
«And in example after example, radical notion after radical notion, Jay and Shel don't just make the assertion about something that challenges
everything we
thought we
knew about marketing — they give readers chapter - and - verse examples that make the case for one simple concept after another that... well, could just revolutionize
everything.
The
thought of not giving
everything they have to bringing their idea to fruition would be the ultimate failure, and this moves them to action,
no matter what.
I was like, «You
know, the people at ExxonMobil don't
think like this, that they should say
everything that comes into their tiny little brain.»
My clients would gasp and realize that
everything they
thought they
knew about efficient markets was dead wrong — the news about this gap in performance had yet to reach the masses.
Certainly, investors hear alarming investment nightmare stories about people who held a large proportion of their personal wealth in their employer's stock and lost
everything.3 4 While your client may
think, «I
know this company because I work here,» that
thinking can get them into trouble —
think WorldCom and Lehman Brothers.
I
think a cynic is often defined as someone who
knows the price of
everything and the value of nothing and I feel like Austrians are exactly the opposite.
I would really, really (I mean it) appreciate your
thoughts and comments below, as I
know I haven't
thought of
everything.
Morgan sees a lot of millennials who aren't willing to take advice and who
think they
know everything.
I'm LDS, and have been all my life, and I
think part of the challenge for those who remain faithful is that they don't
know quite what to say or how to behave around someone who has decided that «
everything you're living is a lie.»
He is also the author of Beyond the Job Description and Re-Making Communication at Work, both of which helped to establish his place in the next generation of influential thinkers challenging
everything we
thought we
knew about success at work.
Atheists: I
know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't
think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't
think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists
think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't
think God will solve our problems, i
think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I
think that God created
everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he
knew how to make it so
everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?
There's absolutely no worth in defending yourself when you're wrong, and you have
everything to gain by offering the olive branch of «you
know, I never
thought of it that way!
Omniscience is the capacity to
know everything infinitely, or at least
everything that can be
known about a character including
thoughts, feelings, life and the universe, etc..
Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical
thinking people can critically
think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't
know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?
The fact that there are differing view points is a living testament to the fact that WE DO N'T
KNOW EVERYTHING AND THEREFORE ANYTHING WE
THINK WE
KNOW IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
That is the unique characteristic of religious «
thinking» (I use the term
thinking loosely), that anything and
everything,
no matter how ludicrous, has one explanation.
There are so many challenges that come with special needs children, I
think that was just her way of breaking the ice and letting her family
know everything is going to be ok.
You're the arrogant one, by
thinking you're above all others and already
know everything.
I suggest that as bright as you
think yourself to be, that you do nt
know everything, and that you consider that you can be wrong about this.
But just as a matter of
knowing where it is I stand on the matter, not only do I
think Paul was infallible, I don't
think everything attributed to him was written by him.
Far too often people never ask a single question,
thinking they
know everything, and rather, give unasked for advice and commentary on personal, albeit incorrect, assumptions.
When you
think you
know nothing, you
know everything.»
I
know more men in there late 30 and early 40 who have told me they will never ever marry because women now days
think the world owes them
everything they want.
I
knew she would remember NOTHING about me if I died, so I spent what I
thought would be my last hours trying to write
EVERYthing I had hoped to tell her over the next 70 years - about me, about herself, about her ancestors, about life.