Ami Vitale Quotes

Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis It was a dream I had last week And some kind of record seemed vital. I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem But I love the title.

On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because to speak of them imperfectly is to rob the of something vital, though to leave them intact, inside, is to leave no space for anything else in your life.

There are many accounts, uniformly incomplete, of what it is like to die slowly. But there is no information at all about what it is like to die suddenly and violently. We are being gentle when we describe such deaths as instant. 'The passengers died instantly.' Did they? It may be that some people can do it, can die instantly. The very old, because the vital powers are weak; the very young, because there is no great accretion of experience needing to be scattered. Muhammad Atta was 33. As for him (and perhaps this is true even in cases of vaporisation; perhaps this was true even for the wall-shadows of Japan), it took much longer than an instant. By the time the last second arrived, the first second seemed as far away as childhood...Even as his flesh fried and his blood boiled, there was life, kissing its fingertips. Then it echoed out, and ended.

In a world of seven billion people, we must see ourselves as part of the landscape.

Her mother looked pleased at the prospect of being vital to her daughter’s success. Ruth sighed, relieved yet sad. Why hadn’t she ever asked her mother to make drawings before? She should have done it when her mother’s hand and mind were still steady. It broke her heart to see her mother trying so hard, being so conscientious, so determined to be valuable. Making her mother happy would have been easy all along. LuLing simply wanted to be essential, as a mother should be.

J'avais reconsulté entre-temps le docteur Chandi, à qui j'avais confié ma volonté expresse de mourir "à l'abri du regard de mes parents", et devant lequel, en évoquant le coma dans lequel était tombé Fichart, l'ami de Bill, je repris les mots de l'unique testament autographe de Muzil : "la mort, pas l'invalidité". Pas de coma prolongé, pas de démence, pas de cécité, la suppression pure et simple au moment adéquat. Mais le docteur Chandi se refusait à prendre en note quoi que ce soit de définitif, se bornant à indiquer que le rapport à la maladie ne cessait de se transformer, pour chaque individu, dans le cours de sa maladie, et qu'on ne pouvait préjuger des mutations vitales de sa volonté.

Tout cela me confortait dans mon intuition, souvent moquée par mes amis, que l’homme était fondamentalement bon – à condition d’être en rapport direct et vital avec d’autres hommes. Impersonnel, un système social écarte l’homme de l’homme. Dans la lézarde ainsi creusée, la plante du ressentiment pousse et nourrit la fraude, le parasitisme et l’abus – puisqu’on ne voit jamais qui paie ni qui souffre de nos abus. On espère que c’est le système qui paie quand lui se contente de répartir les coûts et d’inoculer ce que chacun, par sa rancœur, fait subir de manière diffuse à tous. Les dysfonctionnements s’accroissent, les honnêtes gens s’en prennent aux saboteurs et bientôt les imitent … On se retrouve contraint, pour maintenir la cohésion sociale, d’instaurer un contrôle maniaque et vétilleux sur le moindre petit comportement fautif de chaque citoyen. Et ça donne Cerclon : la démocratie comme liberticide collectif …

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there, inside the round, acidic aspirin dissolving in your brain — this vital flagrancy emerged: I’ve not come from nowhere to be nothing

Working in a psychologically safe environment does not mean that people always agree with one another for the sake of being nice. It also does not mean that people offer unequivocal praise or unconditional support for everything you have to say. In fact, you could say it's the opposite. Psychological safety is about candor, about making it possible for productive disagreement and free exchange of ideas. It goes without saying that these are vital to learning and innovation. Conflict inevitably arises in any workplace. Psychological safety enables people on different sides of a conflict to speak candidly about what's bothering them.

I do not mean to imply that psychological safety is all you need for high performance. Not even close. I like to say that psychological safety takes off the brakes that keep people from achieving what's possible. But it's not the fuel that powers the car. In any challenging industry setting, leaders have two vital tasks. One, they must build psychological safety to spur learning and avoid preventable failures; two, they must set high standards and inspire and enable people to reach them. Setting high standards remains a crucial management task. So does sharing, sharpening, and continually emphasizing a worthy purpose.

Equally valuable is embracing preventive tactics of all kinds—from training to error-proofing. This is not the sexy part of failing well—not the part that gets social media likes or hailed as the latest management fad. Given its enormous value (just ask Alcoa stockholders or commercial airline passengers!), this is a shame. A vital part of failing well is preventing basic failures. If you aspire to zero harm and failure-free work at the point of delivery, it’s essential to make friends with human error. Yes, to err is human. And to forgive (ourselves, especially) is indeed divine. But adopting simple practices to prevent basic failures in our lives and organizations is both possible and worthwhile. You might even say it’s empowering.

The best and safest way to learn about any kind of wildlife is to keep your distance and be respectful.

The genius of the Andon Cord lies both in how it functions as a quality-control device to prevent defects and in its embodiment of two essential facets of error management: (1) catching small mistakes before they compound into substantial failures, and (2) blameless reporting, which plays a vital role in ensuring safety in high-risk environments.

What about accountability? Executives in industries as varied as hospitals and investment banks have asked me this question. Surely individuals must face consequences for failure to avoid an overly lax culture? If people aren’t blamed for failures, how can they be motivated to improve? This concern is based on a false dichotomy. In actuality, a culture that makes it safe to admit failure can (and in high-risk environments must) coexist with high performance standards. A blame culture primarily serves to ensure that people don’t speak up about problems in time to correct them, which obviously doesn’t help performance. This is why blameless reporting is so valuable. As you will see, uninhibited, rapid reporting of anomalies is vital for high performance in any dynamic context.

A key difference between Toyota and 3M is the scope of leeway for experiments. Toyota’s community of scientists works to perfect a system of production designed to remove unwanted variation and ensure perfect quality; the scope of experiments is limited for the most part to those that improve existing processes. At 3M, in contrast, scientists are invited to go wild, think outside the box, and imagine useful products that don’t yet even begin to exist. But in both systems, psychological safety plays a vital role.

vital element of TPS: a deeply ingrained belief that problem-solving is a team sport. Failures are opportunities for improvement. Competent professionals are expected to successfully execute most of their tasks, so successes are not seen as worthy of colleagues’ valuable time.

What people don’t easily put into practice is that the way to perform well in the maze is to collect as quickly as possible information about which squares beep. Logically, teams should applaud their colleagues for discovering both quiet squares and beeping squares. Both provide vital new information about the path. Instead, people experience the tiny intelligent failure of a new beep as a mistake and feel embarrassed by it—an embarrassment that’s amplified by others’ reactions. It shows lack of appreciation of context. A new beep is the right kind of wrong. Let’s call it a “beep going forward.” It’s a metaphor for the missteps in our lives in unfamiliar situations. Just as the maze presents a trial-and-failure task that cannot be solved without stepping on beeping squares, when we face novel contexts in our lives, we must be prepared for failures as we navigate the new terrain. If feeling ashamed of or anxious about a new beep in the maze is irrational (albeit human), so, too, is it irrational to feel embarrassed by the “beeps going forward” in our lives.

Not living with lovers can help keep relationships fresh and vital, by encouraging partners to never take their shared time for granted.

She certainly had a talent for sweetly stated sarcasm.

To understand what’s plausible and possible beyond the visible horizon—to broaden your definition of x—you must seek out and get to know the “unusual suspects,” the people who aren’t yet winning awards for their work or being featured in “40-Under-40” business lists. More often, they’re stirring up controversy for their radical new ideas. Or they’re silently working away, far away from the public spotlight. They are, however, vitally important, and their ideas are all-too-often ignored or discounted.

A key component of vitality is being as present as possible in the moment that is happening right now. The past is over and the future is yet to arrive, but now is the place where your vitality lives.

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Lifelong health and vitality are a marathon not a sprint.