Walter U.

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Walter.

https://www.goodreads.com/walter_ullon

The Cost of These...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Butcher's Mas...
Walter U. is currently reading
by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
“A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs ...more
Loading...
Robert Iger
“Ask the questions you need to ask, admit without apology what you don’t understand, and do the work to learn what you need to learn as quickly as you can.”
Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else.”
Nanea Hoffman
tags: life

“We invented fire, repeatedly messed up, and then invented the fire extinguisher, fire exit, fire alarm and fire department.”
Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“The Saturday Review declared that it is much easier to fix price ceilings than to make certain that there actually will be goods available at such prices. Once government fixes prices it is forced into the position of seeing to it that the owners of goods do not withhold them from sale and that manufacturers and farmers continue production. This amounts to nothing less than industrial conscription.”
Robert Lindsay Schuettinger, Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”
Bill Bowerman

220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 314041 members — last activity 3 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
year in books
Alejand...
1,202 books | 139 friends

Albert
1,325 books | 212 friends

Lisbeth
1,082 books | 65 friends

Tim Weed
838 books | 754 friends

J.S. Ne...
2,692 books | 254 friends

Annelie...
815 books | 31 friends

Bernard...
787 books | 81 friends

Bhavik ...
799 books | 18 friends

More friends…
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol TavrisThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Greatest Psychology Books
794 books — 1,332 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
Tales of Adventure
513 books — 474 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Walter

Lists liked by Walter