If we don’t want to live in a nepotistic society, we have to stop practicing nepotism. And by ‘we’, I mean you.
~ Richard V. Reeves
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Burnout
The cure for burnout is not self-care. The cure for burnout is all of us caring for each other.
~ Amelia Nagoski
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Rules
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Metamorphosis
You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
~ Sekou Andrews
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True bravery
The bravery founded on hope of recompense, fear of punishment, experience of success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger, is but common bravery, and does not deserve the name. True bravery proposes a just end; measures the dangers, and meets the result with calmness and unyielding decision.
~ Francois de la Noue
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Go forward
I’m not trying to sound like Mr. Smiley Positive Guy. That guy ignores the hard truth. That guy thinks a positive attitude will solve problems. It won’t. But neither will dwelling on the problem. No. Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you’re part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout.
~ Jocko Willink
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Failure
Failure is not necessarily durable. Remember that the things that they fire you for when you are young are the same things that they give lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
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Love
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
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Seeds
They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.
~ Mexican proverb
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Unexpected
I’m telling you, the best thing to do is give people questions they’re not expecting.
~ Mike Birbiglia
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Options
In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery.
~ Naval Ravikant
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Talent and courage
A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.
~ Sydney Smith
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Greatness
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: That one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity… but to love it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Heart work
So much of the job is more emotion and ‘heart work’ than it is ‘head work.’ The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it’s not the head, and it’s not an intellectual activity.
~ Rick Rubin
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Mediocrity
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, and you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted.
~ Colin Powell
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Reason
You can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into.
~ Tim Ferriss
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Impossible, or possible?
When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how to get around whoever it is that’s just told you that you can’t do something? So, how am I going to get past this bouncer who told me that I can’t come into this night club? How am I going to start a business when my credit is terrible and I have no experience?
~ Eric Weinstein
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Four stories
There are only four stories: A love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and the journey. Every single book that is in the bookstore deals with these four archetypes, these four themes.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Courage
Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way, and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council. But to constitute a great man both are necessary.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
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Balance
The world is this continually unfolding set of possibilities and opportunities, and the tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you’ve found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation. Balancing those two things—the courage of exploration and the commitment to staying—and getting the ratio right is very hard.
~ Sebastian Junger
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