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Net and scaffold

February 6, 2022 · All posts on Feb 6

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

~ Annie Dillard

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Quotes Annie Dillard Time Management

In love with the game

February 5, 2022 · All posts on Feb 5

Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become, and the hours of practice, and the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.

~ Annie Mist Þórisdóttir

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Quotes Annie Mist Þóridóttir

Coming back

February 4, 2022 · All posts on Feb 4

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

~ Terry Pratchett

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Quotes Terry Pratchett

Refuge

February 3, 2022 · All posts on Feb 3

We all have so much power that we don’t use. And I think it’s because of cynicism, which is a toxic spiritual state. Cynicism is a refuge for cowards.

~ Cory Booker

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Cynicism Cory Booker Quotes

Change

February 2, 2022 · All posts on Feb 2

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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Quotes Leo Tolstoy

Not just reflecting

February 1, 2022 · All posts on Feb 1

… there are two ways to go through life, as a thermometer or a thermostat. Don’t be a thermometer, just reflecting what’s aound you, going up or down with your surroundings. Be a thermostat and set the temperature.

~ Cory Booker

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Cory Booker Quotes

Win by deception

January 31, 2022 · All posts on Jan 31

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

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Quotes Language Niccolò Machiavelli

Excellence

January 30, 2022 · All posts on Jan 30

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

~ Sun Tzu

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Quotes Self-acceptance Sun Tzu

Conformity

January 29, 2022 · All posts on Jan 29

When you do as everyone else does, don’t be surprised when you get what everyone else gets.

~ Peter Kaufman

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Quotes Peter Kaufman

Playful, open-minded, unrestrained

January 28, 2022 · All posts on Jan 28

Celebrate the childlike mind. From what I can see, the best scientists and engineers nurture a childlike mind. They are playful, open-minded, and unrestrained by the inner voice of reason, collective cynicism, or fear of failure.

~ Steve Jurvetson

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Quotes Steve Jurvetson 7 for Sunday

Ego

January 27, 2022 · All posts on Jan 27

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

~ Colin Powell

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Quotes Colin Powell

Dreams are maps

January 26, 2022 · All posts on Jan 26

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

~ Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan Quotes

Shoulders of giants

January 25, 2022 · All posts on Jan 25

I’ve said many times of my generation that we drink deeply from wells of freedom and opportunity that we did not dig, that we eat from tables prepared for us by our ancestors, that we sit comfortably in the shade of trees that we did not cultivate. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

~ Cory Booker

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Cory Booker Quotes

Rest. Reflect. Recalibrate.

January 24, 2022 · All posts on Jan 24

When you’re able to recognize what’s happening and be deliberate with your actions, setbacks don’t have to be as painful. Coming out on the other side ready to recommit to your path requires that you harness all the skills you have learned and apply them to rest, reflect, recalibrate, and then get back on track.

~ Melody Wilding

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Quotes Melody Wilding

Reasons to doubt

January 22, 2022 · All posts on Jan 22

There are always going to be reasons to doubt your own worth; The question is, how far do you allow yourself to go down that road before you look up and realize— you had the power to come home all along.

~ Sara Bareilles

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Sara Bareilles Quotes

The hero within

January 21, 2022 · All posts on Jan 21

Going inward. That’s the real work. The solutions are not outside of us. Get to know who you really are, because as you search for the hero within, you inevitably become one.

~ Emma Tiebens

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Quotes Emma Tiebens

Tolerance versus love

January 19, 2022 · All posts on Jan 19

Tolerance is becoming accustomed to injustice; love is becoming disturbed and activated by another’s adverse condition. Tolerance crosses the street; love confronts. Tolerance builds fences; love opens doors. Tolerance breeds indifference; love demands engagement. Tolerance couldn’t care less; love always cares more.

~ Cory Booker

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Cory Booker Empathy Quotes

Power

January 18, 2022 · All posts on Jan 18

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

~ Alice Walker

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Quotes Self-awareness Alice Walker

Slide easily

January 16, 2022 · All posts on Jan 16

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; Both ways save us from thinking.

~ Alfred Korzybski

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Thought and Philosophy Quotes Alfred Korzybski

Failing to consider

January 15, 2022 · All posts on Jan 15

Failing to consider second- and third-order consequences is the cause of a lot of painfully bad decisions, and it is especially deadly when the fist inferior option confirms your own biases. Never seize on the first available option, no matter how good it seems, before you’ve asked questions and explored.

~ Ray Dalio

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Quotes Rationality Ray Dalio

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