Quotes for Wednesday, December 4th – December the 4th be with you.

Good happy December 4. Everyone, Wednesday, midweek, all these awesome aspects about the day. It's a short week for me. I'll be out of the office Thursday and Friday. So, really, today is my Friday.

Unlike yesterday, today, there were a lot of great quotes in my feed and I share a subset that resonated for me.

Quotes

"What work means to people often has less to do with what tasks they are actually performing than with how they relate to and compare themselves to other people."
– Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder

"Somehow we've entered a world in which we obsess over structural reforms and standardized tests, but skirt around the moral and psychological traits that are at the heart of actual success."
– sfgate.com, Self-Control Is the Key to Success (I know, an odd source, but that is what my app (readwise) captured. If interested, search the title.

"The key to sustainability lies in enhancing the resilience of social-ecological systems, not in optimizing isolated components of the system."
– Brian Walker PhD, Resilience Thinking

"When it comes to the long run, researchers struggle to find any measurable connection between our intentions and our actual behaviour"
– Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes

"It was a brilliant idea: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing."
– Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, and Albert R. Hibbs, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" (The cite is almost as long as the quote!)

"This book will show that while economic institutions are critical for determining whether a country is poor or prosperous, it is politics and political institutions that determine what economic institutions a country has."
– Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, Why Nations Fail