[True optimism involves] seeing the world as it is, yet still believing—and more importantly behaving—in ways that create better outcomes for all of us.
~ Karen Reivich
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True optimism →
Social media →
We cannot make social media good, because it is fundamentally bad… all we can do is hope that it withers away, and play our small part in helping abandon it.
~ Ian Bogost
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Entire vital function →
So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes. Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe; not a service, not a sally of generosity, not a scientific exploration or experiment or textbook, that may not be a mistake. It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
~ William James
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Rejection →
Creating something that can be turned down takes discipline and courage, so there’s reason to feel pride for each rejection.
~ Rhaina Cohen
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Ordinary →
The extraordinary doesn’t wipe out the ordinary. People get married in wartime. Babies are born during pandemics. My mom drew water fro my bath while my father did test runs for the end of the world.
~ Mary Laura Philpott
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Nepotism →
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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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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