It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
~ Don DeLillo
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Dreams →
Options →
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; It’s about having a lot of options.
~ Chris Rock
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Mistakes →
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
~ Thomas Carlyle
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In the bricks →
Self-reliant →
Being self-reliant is critical. To make yourself less dependent on others and so-called experts, you need to expand your repertoire of skills. And you need to feel more confident in your own judgement. Understand: We tend to overestimate other people’s abilities—after all, they’re trying hard to make it look as if they knew what they were doing—and we tend to underestimate our own. You must compensate for this by trusting yourself more and others less.
~ Robert Greene
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Clever →
If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly, and how to stop talking when there is nothing more to say.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Foreign currency →
Advice is like being handed a large amount of foreign currency. What do you do with it?
~ Rhik Samadder
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Well-employed →
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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Just ask →
If you’re a pole vaulter, you need a long runway to pick up the speed required to plant the pole and flip over the bar. Odds are you are not a pole vaulter. You don’t need a runway of context, justification, and general flim-flam to be curious. It’s not really about you. Save everyone the time, and just ask the question.
~ Michael Bungay Stanier
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Fleeing →
A coward flees backward, away from new things. A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
~ Jacques Maritain
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