“No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.” Quote by Edward Hallowell
“I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.” PeopleAgree Author:Edward Hallowell
“It is especially important for managers to know about, neuroplasticity, the greatest discovery in neuroscience in the past 20 years. It refers to the fact that the brain is remarkably plastic. It can grow and change for the better throughout life. In fact, "plastic" denotes the brain's ability to grow and change throughout life.” ImportantPastAbilityBrainNeuroscienceChange For The Better Author:Edward Hallowell
“A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I mean face-to-face, in-person contact and communication. I have identified several modern paradoxes and the first is that, for various reasons, we have grown electronically superconnected but we have simultaneously grown emotionally disconnected from each other.” MeanReasonMomentsTermPowerfulModernCommunicationVariousParadox Author:Edward Hallowell
“Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.” PeopleModernLonelinessCommunication Author:Edward Hallowell
“The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.” MindProblemAttentionStudy Author:Allen Klein
“From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing brain cells - literally - while those who cultivate the human moment are growing them.” PeopleMomentsBrainLosing Author:Edward Hallowell
“People associate hard work and overload with stress. But, like suffering, stress is complicated. Bad stress is stress that a system can't endure without suffering damage. It is unplanned, uncontrolled, allows no time for rest and recovery, and exceeds the capacity of the system to adjust to it. As the popular phrase suggests, it burns people out and, over time, it can decimate an entire workforce.” PeopleSufferingHard WorkStressEndureComplicatedRecovery Author:Edward Hallowell
“Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.” ExcellenceDisconnectionLack Of Respect Author:Edward Hallowell
“I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five years I stopped and wrote Lucinella. I got stuck; it was too hard to write. Lucinella felt like a lark. I wanted to write about the literary circle because it amused me, and I allowed myself to do what I wanted to do. It's just one of the things I'm allowed to do if I feel like it.” WritingLongStuckEighteen Author:Lore Segal