Long-term consistency trumps short term intensity.
~ Bruce Lee
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Long-term Consistency →
Immortality →
Based on what I know about software without deadlines, humans achieving immortality would be a disaster.
~ Jeff Atwood
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Honestly mistaken →
When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest.
~ unknown
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Ethics, Integrity, Courage, Dignity →
• A man does the job no one else wants to do.
~ “Atticus Finch”
• A man lives with integrity every day.
• The most important form of courage is moral courage.
• Live with quiet dignity.
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Tired of chasing →
Giving up and moving on are two very different things. There comes a point when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it’s not giving up, and it’s not the end. It’s a new beginning. It’s realizing, finally, that you don’t need certain people and things and the drama they bring.
~ Marc Chernoff
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The mind wants comfort →
[T]he mind wants comfort, and is afraid of discomfort and change. The mind is used to its comfort cocoon, and anytime we try to push beyond that comfort zone very far or for very long, the mind tries desperately to get back into the cocoon. At any cost, including our long-term health and happiness.
~ Leo Babauta from, The Lies Your Mind Tells You to Prevent Life Changes
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How to be polite →
The practice of politeness is a collection of habits of mind and expression you do on a daily basis. You learn to say “thank you” because you are honestly grateful and “I’m sorry” because you honestly don’t want to contribute to the pain of the world. You learn to say “it’s ok” because you’re honestly forgiving and letting go of small things other people do wrong. This practice makes the rate of unproductive and acrimonious conversations go down, and the enemies you make are usually only the unavoidably unpleasant.
~ Quinn Norton, from How to be Polite… for Geeks
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Royal road to simplicity →
No character can be simple unless it is based on truth — unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion. Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate — where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own ideals is the royal road to simplicity. Affectation is the confession of inferiority; It is an unnecessary proclamation that one is not living the life he pretends to live.
~ William G. Jordan
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You don’t have a job, you have a hobby →
That’s the only test that counts. It’s not how hard you work, it’s what happens if you stop. If quitting means real hardship for you or your family, you have a job. If you keep at it even though you could spend the rest of your life skipping rocks at your house by the lake, you have a hobby.
I’ve got nothing against hobbies. The Weekly Sift is a hobby. One way to describe the Marxist vision of Utopia is that we’d all be hobbyists, and the world’s work would get done by people who just wanted the satisfaction of doing it. (That vision even works sometimes: Wikipedia, open source software, and so on.)
~ Doug Muder from, Rich People Don’t Have Jobs
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Progress and change →
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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