Sutton Book Quotes

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

I love to read sir. I always have. But when I walk into a library or a bookshop, I get overwhelmed. I don't know where to start. Start anywhere. How do I know what's worth my time and what's a waste? None of it is waste. Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Give me a chance. A chance for you to roll your eyes at me a million more times and for me to call you Sophie, a thousand more lame parties and baseball games and dog walking and fireworks. A real first date, where we can read more romance books that you love and eat Janet’s cookies. I want to give you everything because you deserve it. You’re worth it all, and I’ll prove it to you.

I write books with words. Numerous words. Words that stomp and stare and crush and collapse and boogie and bang and scream and laugh and manipulate. My books are a storehouse of words that form paragraphs that form chapters that form stories that form thoughts that live on long after you've read the last word.

A part of him died slowly, and the other part died overnight

in the scramble to survive, founders often hire to solve immediate needs and simultaneously create long-term problems. This mistake is common enough that Bob Sutton wrote a book, The No-Asshole Rule, to help executives recognize the damage these hires cause to culture.5 No matter how many golden lectures a leader gives imploring people to “Be collaborative” or “Work as a team,” if the people hired have destructive habits, the lecture will lose.

That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and public sharing. As a parent in that landscape, you'll need to be sometimes traveling companion, sometimes guides, sometimes off in your own part of the forest. A relationship between readers is complicated and cannot be reduced to such "strategies" as mandatory reading aloud, a commendable family activity whose pleasure has been codified into virtue, transforming the nightly bedtime story into a harbinger of everybody's favorite thing: homework.

There’s always been books. All my bedraggled life, they’ve been the only constant. Even Sutton, my closest friend, had exclaimed, “What’s with the fucking reading, man? You used to be a guard, for christsakes.” Which is Irish logic at its finest. I’d said to him then and umpteen times since, “Reading transports me.

As if he could read her mind, Chad chose that very moment to look up from his What to Expect book. “Says here some women get really horny when they’re pregnant,” he said, waggling his eyebrows with a shit-eating grin. “It does not!” Jennie said, feeling two hot spots form on her cheeks. How does he know? “Does too. They don’t phrase it that way, but that’s essentially it. Anything you need help with, Jennie? Any cravings I can take care of for you?” Chad laughed as he leaned in suggestively. “Gah!

Self-Management If you can read just one book on motivation—yours and others: Dan Pink, Drive If you can read just one book on building new habits: Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit If you can read just one book on harnessing neuroscience for personal change: Dan Siegel, Mindsight If you can read just one book on deep personal change: Lisa Lahey and Bob Kegan, Immunity to Change If you can read just one book on resilience: Seth Godin, The Dip Organizational Change If you can read just one book on how organizational change really works: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch If you can read just two books on understanding that change is a complex system: Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organizations Dan Pontefract, Flat Army Hear interviews with FREDERIC LALOUX, DAN PONTEFRACT, and JERRY STERNIN at the Great Work Podcast. If you can read just one book on using structure to change behaviours: Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto If you can read just one book on how to amplify the good: Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin, The Power of Positive Deviance If you can read just one book on increasing your impact within organizations: Peter Block, Flawless Consulting Other Cool Stuff If you can read just one book on being strategic: Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley, Playing to Win If you can read just one book on scaling up your impact: Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao, Scaling Up Excellence If you can read just one book on being more helpful: Edgar Schein, Helping Hear interviews with ROGER MARTIN, BOB SUTTON, and WARREN BERGER at the Great Work Podcast. If you can read just two books on the great questions: Warren Berger, A More Beautiful Question Dorothy Strachan, Making Questions Work If you can read just one book on creating learning that sticks: Peter Brown, Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, Make It Stick If you can read just one book on why you should appreciate and marvel at every day, every moment: Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything If you can read just one book that saves lives while increasing impact: Michael Bungay Stanier, ed., End Malaria (All money goes to Malaria No More; about $400,000 has been raised so far.) IF THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS, THEN WHAT KIND OF QUESTIONS DO STUPID PEOPLE ASK?

Brace yourself,” she said to Will. “Trouble and chaos are headed our direction.” “More kids?” “No,” she said. “Senior citizens.” They were soon joined by two women from Cordelia’s book club. Sylvie Sutton, his landlord, sported a sassy pixie cut and elf ears while her best friend Frannie Nelson preened in a magenta wig.

Garret Sutton’s books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations

Robert urges those who own legitimate assets to find out more about corporations’ benefits and protections. Garret Sutton’s books are among many that can help.

Continual physical training in the shape of hunting and exercise in arms was given first priority by all writers on the subject of chivalry, but many mention the need of theoretical grounding as well.

Anthony, who had a memorial in the hours of Richard’s father, was closely associated with the pig or boar, the animal that supported Richard’s arms and, when white, was a symbol of resistance to temptation and the rejection of evil. St Anthony had been the first monk, a healer of men and animals, patron of hospitals for the poor and the sick and of a spiritual order of knighthood

Statistics Slam Dunk is a wonderful book to extend your data management and statistical skills with R, especially when you love sports!

Ultimately we can only be certain he knew his book of hours well. The dangers of speculating about any library, such as Richard’s, which lacks a surviving, complete, regularly updated and reliable inventory, are great.

Studies of long inventories produced in Italy, France and England have revealed the uniformity of the contents of Latin libraries, the increasing use of vernacular translations of the classics by the princes of those countries, and that all libraries had similar proportions of Latin, vernacular, scriptural, and other texts.

The boar was a popular heraldic charge, used long before heraldry became standardised. The sanglier was the most dangerous and difficult animal to hunt, a beste noire (like the wolf and the bear) whose killer was greatly honoured. In contrast to the stag (one of the bestes rouges) which came to symbolise the Christian virtues – a flying stag was particularly associated with the kings of France – the boar stood for the sinner,12 but at the same time the boar’s very ferocity and power caused it to develop from a symbol of evil to an emblem of him who defeated it. In most stories the boar of evil is black and it is likely Richard very consciously chose a white boar to exorcise in advance all the vices of the animal and leave it only its virtues.

A unique clue about Richard and his books and his attitude to them is to be found in the fact that he was able to quote from them.

had to smile. "Willie Sutton said it. He robbed banks because that's where the money is.

Friction fixers need to be especially wary of smart critics. Experiments by psychologist Teresa Amabile on the “brilliant but cruel” effect found that people who write nasty book reviews are seen as more intelligent and expert than people who write positive reviews. As Amabile put it, “Only pessimism sounds profound. Optimism sounds superficial.

Research on launching new businesses and products shows that—at best—the so-called first-mover advantage is a dangerous half-truth. When markets are treacherous and uncertainty is high, first movers often flounder because consumers aren’t ready for their ideas or are put off by crummy early offerings. Companies that launch their products or services later end up as winners, in part, because they learn from the fatal missteps of eager early movers. Amazon was not the first online bookstore; the defunct Books.com and Interloc were among the earlier entrants. Netscape, the first commercially successful Web browser, was launched years before Google. Myspace was a successful social networking service before Facebook. Couchsurfing was founded before Airbnb. Being first is risky when smart fast followers can learn from your troubles and pass you

I don’t recall giving you permission to address me at all.

Of course not. But would you want to share?” Carson asks, his expression turning serious.

Shit. I want it. I want to fuck her while you come down her throat. I want to fill her with every inch of both our cocks until her voice is hoarse from screaming my name.

She is mine, and I’ll be damned if I let some limp-dick piece of shit take her from me.

Then, some reading on 20th Century history: Curtis Yarvin: Unqualified Reservations — a broad survey of Western historical anomalies, with a focus on the 20th and 19th centuries. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago — what the Soviet Union was actually like. Yuri Slezkine: The House of Government — how the Soviet Union actually worked. Janet Malcom: The Journalist and the Murderer — how journalists “befriend and betray” their subjects for clicks, a book taught in journalism schools as something of a how-to manual. Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler — how different groups of capitalists funded the communist and fascist revolutions respectively. Ashley Rindsberg: The Gray Lady Winked — how The New York Times systematically misrepresented the truth over the 20th century.

You will sleep with us inside you tonight, Temper. If you can’t handle that, then you’ll find yourself impaled on my cock and trying to sleep that way.

Bet you wish I’d rip off this condom and fill you until you’re dripping with my cum,

But we—and I include myself, of course—go through our lives as though that central fact about being a human on this earth is not really real. And then when someone dies, we are not only sad but surprised that the event could possibly have taken place, we feel as though all the rules of nature have suddenly been upended, when it is exactly the opposite.

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This new Wren wants everything. Especially after Sutton kisses the side of my neck and murmurs, “Be here. With me.” He sounds drunk. Drunk on me. And then promptly falls asleep. And I lie awake for a long time. And love him. I love him so much it hurts. And that’s a fucking problem.

No positive without a negative. No give without a take.

Garret Sutton’s books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations.

superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).

expressions as they sketched. Molly walked up and sat on the rim, people-watching until she remembered the éclair and went off to look for a pâtisserie in earnest. She had loads of work to do; the cottage on her property was nowhere near ready for guests, and she had her first booking coming in a matter of days. She should have been shopping for sheets and pillows, and giving the place a good scrubbing instead of wandering

To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God” (Rev. 2:7).

To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it” (Rev. 2:17).

How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together [a meeting of believers] each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 1 Corinthians 14:26

He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death” (Rev. 2:11).

is a mere tri-coincidence, improbable beyond rational belief, that three out of only seven naturalists known to have cited Matthew’s prior-published book before 1858, containing the full hypothesis of natural selection, played such pivotal roles at the very epicenter of influence and facilitation of Darwin’s and Wallace’s published work on natural selection.

Despite the horseshit spewed out by too many management gurus, there are no magic bullets, instant cures, or easy shortcuts to becoming a great boss. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar. The best bosses succeed because they keep chipping away at a huge pile of dull, interesting, fun, rewarding, trivial, frustrating, and often ridiculous chores. That’s why this book is called Good Boss, Bad Boss. Devoting relentless attention to doing one good thing after another – however small – is the only path I know to becoming and remaining a great boss.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world.

An assumption runs throughout much of this chapter—indeed, throughout much of this book—that many new ideas are generated by people who are seen as deviants within their companies, industries, and societies. Apple Computer’s simple slogan, “Think Different,” captures this perspective well. Unfortunately, thinking and acting differently is given lipservice in most companies, but when people actually do it, they are ignored, humiliated, and fired. If you really do want to encourage people to develop ideas that will be seen as dumb and impractical, I have one more piece of advice: Outlaw even light-hearted ridicule and put-downs when people suggest these wacky ideas.

Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton described this phenomenon in his now famous book The No Asshole Rule. He defines an asshole as someone who makes other people feel worse about themselves or who specifically targets people less powerful than him or her.

You don’t just leave. You don’t act on emotion. Feelings are fickle and fleeting. Love isn’t a feeling, Carter. It’s an action. The Good Book says love isn’t self-seeking. It says love always perseveres. And I’ve never known the Good Book to be wrong, son.

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he is simply heads and tails more capable than anyone else. It’s a romantic notion in popular media—Sherlock Holmes, Miranda Priestly, Tony Stark—but in real life, these people are not who you want on your team no matter how talented they are. Instead of a multiplier effect, you get a divider effect: the presence of this person makes the rest of your team less effective. Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton described this phenomenon in his now famous book The No Asshole Rule. He defines an asshole as someone who makes other people feel worse about themselves or who specifically targets people less powerful than him or

These tests imply an even more fundamental lesson that runs through this book: the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.

Who are you texting?” I peer over his shoulder. “Our dear little sister. I’m pretty sure she reads those kinky books about cowboys and fake dating. We need to do our research.”  “My life is not a romance novel.

Call Florence. We need the names of those fake dating books.

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Another life awaited them. It was time to go. They would work out the specifics later. “Play it as it lays,” so to speak. 

Mennonite pastor Arthur Paul Boers offers similar advice in his book Never Call Them Jerks. Boers suggests that when parishioners are hostile and selfish, labeling them as jerks is insulting and detracts from a constructive focus on repairing relationships and changing behavior.

I love to read sir. I always have. But when I walk into a library or bookshop, I get overwhelmed. I don’t know where to start. Start anywhere. How do I know what’s worth my time and what’s a waste? None of it is a waste. Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best. Do you want to spend your life planting roses with me? No sir. Then—books. It’s that simple. A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

It’s that simple. A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

The menu was ambitious: lavender spritzers, toasted slices of baguette spread with goat cheese and duxelles, camembert and fig tartines, frisée salad with lardons and a mustard dressing, ratatouille, duck confit, and profiteroles covered in birthday candles for dessert.

It stands for Appellation d'origine contrôlée. It just means some agricultural product that is special to a certain terroir, or place. Like—Roquefort cheese,

I have been feeling a bit ‘under the weather’—a maritime expression, as you probably know, taken from a seasick person going below decks on the ‘weather side,’ where the storm is hitting—

If you try to make everything free of stress you end up with nothing! No existence at all that anyone would want!

A stack of books stood on a small table by an armchair. An empty teacup by the books.

Then she was struck with an idea. “Monsieur Nugent, I’m wondering—just how difficult is it to make an almond croissant? It’s just puff pastry and almond paste, right? Not too many ingredients?

Often we think we want something new, when in fact, what our soul yearns for is something familiar, something from our past.

And do you still not understand that in France, there is nothing more important than a meal? Nothing!

Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

In Matthew 24:9-13. Jesus was warning His disciples, and us, of the things to come before His return.

We pick at and attack each other, usually through gossip or backstabbing. Many who claim to follow Jesus have, in reality, turned away from Him. There are false teachers in churches, even churches that are trying to preach the truth. We tolerate and accept sin rather than taking a loving stand against it. Most notably, the love that Jesus said would characterize His followers is absent in many Christians and churches.

the church at Ephesus in Revelation chapter 2. ‘I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.

Human nature is still the same, whether we’re talking about a rebellious child or a church body. At our core, humans want to do what they want to do. We like it when people approve of what we’re doing, especially if we know or suspect that what we’re doing is wrong. If you never tell anyone the hard truth, you’ll have a lot of people follow you just so they can feel better about the sin in their lives.

And God would see him through, whether the outcome was a good resolution or whether it ended in death.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 says “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

Revelation chapter 3, Jesus has a special message for the church at Philadelphia. ‘I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me. Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue – those liars who say they are Jews, but are not – to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love. Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.

Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.

In verse twenty-four, He tells them, ‘But I also have a message for the rest of you in Thyatira who have not followed this false teaching… I will ask nothing more of you except that you hold tightly to what you have until I come. To all who are victorious, who obey me to the very end, to them I will give authority over the nations. They will rule the nations with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots. They will have the same authority I received from my Father, and I will also give them the morning star!

El Roi, please help me! Just saying the name of God, El Roi, the God who sees, shafted peace into her soul. God knew her plight. He saw her situation. He would see her through.

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

God doesn’t generally give road maps. He provides directions turn by turn.

God doesn’t run His plans by me for approval. He doesn’t owe me anything. I tend to be thankful that He reveals anything to me

God doesn’t run His plans by me for approval. He doesn’t owe me anything. I tend to be thankful that He reveals anything to me rather than complain about what He doesn’t say.

God often chooses those the world views as lesser because He sees the worth within.

From the moment I believed in Jesus, I knew what that belief would cost me.

Your lack of belief in God doesn’t negate His existence.

I will ask nothing more of you except that you hold tightly to what you have until I come. To all who are victorious, who obey me to the very end, to them I will give authority over the nations. They will rule the nations with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots. They will have the same authority I received from my Father, and I will also give them the morning star! Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches.

I know all the things you do. I have seen your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance. And I can see your constant improvement in all these things… I will ask nothing more of you except that you hold tightly to what you have until I come.” Patient endurance.

So… where should we do it?” I look around. “Here? The bedroom? The kitchen counter?” I’m fucking this up so badly, and I don’t know how to stop. “The bedroom?” Sutton offers. Still smiling. Still amused. By some miracle, still interested.

the church at Sardis in Revelation 3. ‘I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive—but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions do not meet the requirements of my God. Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again.

But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.

John 11:35. Jesus wept.

Dark times are ahead, for both you and your friends. But the Lord has not left you without help. ‘In those days I will pour out My Spirit even on servants – men and women alike. And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth – blood and fire and columns of smoke.

If it’s God’s will for the sun to darken or clouds to move on, why does He need me to pray about it?” “He doesn’t need you, however He wants to involve you in His work.

God would have gotten your attention one way or another. He loves you too much to let you go without a fight.

God always hears our prayers, but sometimes has a plan far beyond our comprehension. We’re limited by this tiny moment in time in which we exist. God sees the whole picture.

It’s a conversation. Sometimes, He answers our prayers with a yes. Other times, His answer is no. Other times, He changes our prayers to bring us into alignment with His will. God doesn’t answer to us. We answer to Him. The big question is if you will trust Him, even when you don’t understand what He’s doing or why.

It’s a hard one, because it requires a complete rewiring of your thinking. My suggestion is to go back to the cross. Meditate on the love God has shown you. Let it absorb into your mind and your heart. The more you look into the face of such love, the more that love will govern your life and your actions.

James 1:5-8 says something that might help you. ‘If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.