From our newsletter Outside the Lines - The Business Edition

Don’t take my word for it

Smart folks thinking out loud about what to listen to.

“People say I don’t take criticism well, but I say ‘What the hell do they know?’”
-Groucho Marx

“Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.”
-Rita Mae Brown

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
-Ray Bradbury

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
-Florence Scovel Shinn

“It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.”
-Donatella Versace

“No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it.”
-Konosuke Matsushita

“If it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.”
-Jack Adams

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.”
-Jonas Salk

“Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.”
-Kingsley Amis

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
-Winston Churchill

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