Lots of people want to ride w/ you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus w/ you…
— Oprah Winfrey
No, I’m not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain’t shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist.
The Peter Principle →
is the principle that In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. Peter’s Corollary states that “in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties” and adds that “work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence”.
Economics, where they tell you something you already know in a way you don’t understand.
— Jeffrey Bergstrand, Notre Dame Finance Professor
le trou Normand →
or “the Norman hole”, is a pause between meal courses in which diners partake of a glassful of calvados in order to improve the apetite and make room for the next course.
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From The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
Sisyphean →
Endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.
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Sisyphus was a king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
— Angela Monet
Important: if something is important, say why and to whom. Use sparingly.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
— Andre Gide
