Quotes

Living the dream →

Published October 19, 2024  ·  All posts on Oct 19  ·  

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 →

Published October 6, 2024  ·  All posts on Oct 6  ·  

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 →

Published October 2, 2024  ·  All posts on Oct 2  ·  

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 →

Published September 27, 2024  ·  All posts on Sep 27  ·  ,

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 →

Published September 25, 2024  ·  All posts on Sep 25  ·  

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 →

Published September 23, 2024  ·  All posts on Sep 23  ·  , ,

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 →

Published September 21, 2024  ·  All posts on Sep 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 →

Published September 19, 2024  ·  All posts on Sep 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 →

Published September 17, 2024  ·  All posts on Sep 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 →

Published August 25, 2024  ·  All posts on Aug 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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