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Failing is only productive when two things are true: first, the person who fails actually learns something from it and is thus motivated to try again; and second, the failure doesn’t permanently close future doors.
Si l’on retient cette estimation, il apparaît que le clergé masculin regroupait au XVIIe siècle environ 3,3 % de la population adulte masculine, soit un homme adulte sur trente, ce qui est considérable. Au cours du XVIIIe siècle, cette proportion s’est abaissée un peu au-dessous de 2 %, ce qui représente encore près d’un homme adulte sur cinquante (voir tableau 2.2). Par comparaison, moins d’un homme adulte sur mille était membre du clergé en France à la fin du XXe siècle et au début du XXIe (toutes religions confondues). En trois siècles, la classe religieuse a bel et bien disparu.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
remember that by saying “yes”—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying “no” to something else. Each time you make a commitment, you forfeit your chance to commit to something else. This, of course, is an inevitable, inescapable consequence of allocating any finite resource. People who plan have to have the guts, honesty, and discipline to drop projects as well as to initiate them, to shake their heads “no” as well as to smile “yes.”
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
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