This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.
~ Anne Frank
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Success →
Luck →
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
~ Michael Lewis
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Humility →
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Curiosity →
If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. […] Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world. Having a conversation with someone I may disagree with is, I have come to find, a great, life embracing pleasure.
~ Nick Cave
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Mind →
Wanting →
The minute you stop wanting something you get it.
~ Andy Warhol
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Memento mori →
Thinking →
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
~ John Locke
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Mysterious →
The world […] is indeed a strange and deeply mysterious place, forever changing and remaking itself anew. But this is not a novel condition, our world hasn’t only recently become bizarre and temporary, it has been so ever since its inception, and it will continue to be such until its end—mystifying and forever in a state of flux.
~ Nick Cave
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One →
One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: It requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.
~ Russell Brand
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