“In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.” IfsImagineMissingInternetDollarsForgottenPhonesConnectedMedicalUsersStableMedicationFeesBatteriesMonitoringMissing ItSensors Author:Donald Sadoway
“You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.” PeopleMenWorldYearsBelieveTwoShowsBusinessCompanyPlansTeamMissingCoupleManagementStartingCoachesTwo ThingsOne ManLoserSeniorVergeMissing ItSenior Management Author:Steve Jobs
“I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.” PeopleIfsWantedLife IsHoursSleepMissingDrinkDrugSevenBoringSmokePleasantMissing It Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.” UseOpportunityImagineMissingEternalSatisfactionPunishmentRepentanceSentimentsBenevolenceScarceMissing It Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Most of us have had the experience of sitting by the seashore or on a mountaintop, simply enjoying the beauty of nature, relaxed, content, and present. We've probably also had the experience of sitting by the seashore or on a mountaintop and missing it completely. Being present - or not - is a basic human experience.” HumansEnjoyNatureBeautyMissingSittingExperienceRelaxedHuman ExperienceNature BeautySeashoreMissing It Author:Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
“You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.” EndsLastsChanceToo MuchMissingConversationGrammarOmissionLast ChanceMissing It Author:Tom Stoppard
“Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?” KindImportantDifferentBigsTodayFacesOpportunityGamesWinningBusinessCompanyVisionMissingIndustryCompetitionChasingTunnelsInnovatorsImportant QuestionsTunnel VisionMissing It Author:Bill Taylor
“One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.” PeopleNeedsMayReasonMovingDesireNaturalCitiesMissingConsciousRhythmUnconsciousTrendsMoving OutMissing It Author:Shakti Gawain
“It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” KnowsMomentsPainLastsPleasureGoneMissingLifetimeMissing YouI Miss YouMissed YouI Missed YouMissing ItMissing You LoveLove And Miss YouI've Missed You Author:Bette Davis
“People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.” PeopleKnowsCountryBeautifulMissingHavensTrainAirplaneTrafficPassengersCountrysideRailroadsMissing ItBeautiful Country Author:Ken Kelly
“Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.” YearsMissingOne DayObviousDays Of The YearMissing It Author:Jeff Brazier
“I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.” IfsThinkingWayWellsStoriesAbleFeltPerfectHeardMissingWake UpSellingMaskLegendsWakingShoppingOrgansEpisodesUrbanJustifiedMenusKidneysSaturatedBathtubsIconographyMissing ItUrban Legends Author:Bryan Fuller