Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.
~ Mark Manson
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Character →
It can’t be done →
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.
~ Ben Morcell
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Creativity →
The highest form of creativity is found by improvising within a set of restrictions.
~ Christopher Nolan
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It’s the cake →
A party without a cake is really just a meeting.
~ Julia Child
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Watch, quietly →
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
~ T.H. White
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I arrange my thoughts →
[A]s I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; It’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination. Even after decades of writing, the same still holds true.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Success →
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
~ Warren Buffett
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Happiness →
You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.
~ Joseph Mayer
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Wrong →
Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.
~ David McRaney
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