Margaret Heffernan Quotes - Page 3

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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Phones, Cliche

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, Ideas, Giving

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• Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Wall, Cubicles, Noise

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Opportunity, Stay Focused, Turns

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• I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Online, Company

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• Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Sleep, Email, Waking

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• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Different, Employee, Unpredictable

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• I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.
  But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing
  in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient
  condition for making it come true.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Cheerleading, Believe, Ambition

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• Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Building, Stamina, Building A Business

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• British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Art, Class, Engineering

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• money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

  Margaret Heffernan

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mother, Father, Cutting

  "Why We Don’t Celebrate Mother’s Day in our Home" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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