The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
~ Randy Pausch
Elsewhere, this is 4a571. — slipbox
Brick walls are there for a reason →
Never predict →
I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Elsewhere, this is 4a208. — slipbox
Happened to things →
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Elsewhere, this is 4a550. — slipbox
The center of your being →
Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy →
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
~ Carl Sagan
Elsewhere, this is 4a781. — slipbox
I don’t think it has to be physical books — recall Mr. Sagan is from the pre-Internet epoch — but definitely *reading*, and definitely you have to be doing the hard work of deciding for yourself what you are reading.
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Books are key →
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
Elsewhere, this is 4a781. — slipbox
The shots you never take →
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Elsewhere, this is 4a577. — slipbox
Don’t chase people →
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to your. And stay.
Elsewhere, this is 4a262. — slipbox
Justice →
Justice is what love looks like in public.
Elsewhere, this is 4a559. — slipbox
Arrive at the conviction →
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Elsewhere, this is 4a253. — slipbox