When you think you can’t go on, force yourself to keep going. Your success is based on persistence, not luck.
~ unknown
Elsewhere, this is 4a129. — slipbox
Persistence →
Trample it beneath your feet →
I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
~ Nadia Comăneci
Elsewhere, this is 4a128. — slipbox
Courage →
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
~ unknown
Elsewhere, this is 4a127. — slipbox
Change simply is →
Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.
~ Don Draper, in Mad Men (“Love Among the Ruins”), (s3e2, 2009 TV series)
Elsewhere, this is 4a123. — slipbox
Immortality →
Based on what I know about software without deadlines, humans achieving immortality would be a disaster.
~ Jeff Atwood
Elsewhere, this is 4a121. — slipbox
Eyes half-closed →
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-closed afterwards.
~ unknown
Elsewhere, this is 4a124. — slipbox
Useless to worry →
When one is inexperienced as a teacher, one gets quite worried about the pupil’s situation; His anxieties rub off on the teacher as it were. But an older teacher realizes it is useless to worry or even think about it. The thinking has been done already, and a proper programme has been carefully worked out to suit this pupil. Either he will follow it, or he will not.
~ Trevor Leggett
Elsewhere, this is 4a119. — slipbox
Perfection →
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Elsewhere, this is 4a197. — slipbox
By example →
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
~ Paulo Coelho
Elsewhere, this is 4a558. — slipbox
Staggering results →
Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.
~ unknown
Elsewhere, this is 4a302. — slipbox