Kristen Majdanics

More fiction has been told in Microsoft Excel than in books.

If you want to get paid, find the contrast.

No one hears you if you sneeze in the middle of New York. But if you sneeze in a library, everyone does. The same concept applies to work.

It's better to dominate a small pond than drown in an ocean.

When teams at work have rituals, their members tend to find more meaning in their work. How to start or end meetings, regular weekly lunches or drinks after work — rituals like these can help random co-workers become more connected.

Michael Norton

Author of “The Ritual Effect” and professor at Harvard Business School

When you’re stuck at something — writing the first lines of a letter, painting a picture, coming up with creative ideas at work — spend five minutes coming up with the worst ideas you can. Allowing your words to flow pushes you to focus on the more abstract or general idea before your overcritical instincts snuff it out.

Adam Alter

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C.S. Lewis on the value of starting where you are:

“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

Distractions are the assassins of great work. You don't need more time; you need more focus.

“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process... See more

The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.