Craig Constantine

Living the dream

Most of us are “living the dream”—living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves. We might be married to the person we once dreamed of marrying, have the children and job we once dreamed of having, and own the car we once dreamed of buying. But thanks to hedonic adaptation, as soon as we find ourselves living the life of our dreams, we start taking that life for granted. Instead of spending our days enjoying our good fortune, we spend them forming and pursuing new, grander dreams for ourselves.
~ William B. Irvine

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Overcoming Resistance

15 Days Ago

How many pages have I produced? I don’t care. Are they any good? I don’t even think about it. All that matters is I’ve put in my time and hit it with all I’ve got. All that counts is that, for this day, for this session, I have overcome Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield

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Intention is action

19 Days Ago

Your intention should be something that really lights you up. You need to feel it in your chest, in your gut. It is the verb that connects you to your audience, the umbilical cord that takes your energy to them and brings theirs back to you. Intention is action.
~ Angie Flynn-McIver

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The future

24 Days Ago

Science fiction has the capacity to inspire by setting the vision of a radically better future, and by making it clear that the future won’t happen unless we put in the work.
~ Dan Wang

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Reading

26 Days Ago

There will be no war and there will be no greed and all of the children will know how to read.
~ Gene Roddenberry

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Peculiar thinking

28 Days Ago

Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, molds the man.
~ Dugald Stewart

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Wisdom versus talking

September 21

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~ Doug Larson

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Risk

September 19

I do not intend to take dangerous chances, both because I have no wish to get hurt and because a fall would stop my experimenting, which I would not like at all. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks.
~ Wilbur Wright

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Souvenirs

September 17

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant

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Inlet to the soul

August 25

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
~ Hosea Ballou

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Everyone else

August 23

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
~ Haruki Murakami

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Decide

August 21

Decide! There is nothing in the world so pitiable as an undecided man, who wavers between two feelings, hoping to reconcile them, and does not understand that nothing can unite them.
~ Goethe

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Knowing

August 19

This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.
~ Alan Watts

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Listening

August 17

Sit at your desk and listen.
~ Franz Kafka

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Meaning

August 15

Those who can’t find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it too.
~ Lew Welch

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Open to

August 13

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
~ Richard Cavett

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Belief

August 11

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~ Ralph Hodgson

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Accumulated

August 10

The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.
~ Niall Ferguson

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Unnecessary

August 9

Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
~ Sebastian Junger

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Reading

August 8

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain

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Craig Constantine

Caution: Blogging. Randomly.

Quotes

Living the dream

Overcoming Resistance

Intention is action

The future

Reading

Peculiar thinking

Wisdom versus talking

Risk

Souvenirs

Inlet to the soul

Everyone else

Decide

Knowing

Listening

Meaning

Open to

Belief

Accumulated

Unnecessary

Reading