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Life speeds on the bold and favors the brave.
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You don't convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look for leverage to make them listen. Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp.
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What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
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In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.' " Many"
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There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.
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We blame our bosses, the economy, our politicians, other people, or we write ourselves off as failures or our goals as impossible. When really only one thing is at fault: our attitude and approach.
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Great times are great softeners
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.
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Placed in some situation that seems unchangeable and undeniably negative, we can turn it into a learning experience, a humbling experience, a chance to provide comfort to others.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. -- CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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Booker T. Washington tells an anecdote told to him by Frederick Douglass, about a time he was traveling and was asked to move and ride in the baggage car because of his race. A white supporter rushed up to apologize for this horrible offense. "I am sorry, Mr. Douglass, that you have been degraded in this manner," the person said. Douglass would have none of that. He wasn't angry. He wasn't hurt. He replied with great fervor: "They cannot de..
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It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.
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The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other. Let
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The hard thing isn't dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare.
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Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I
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Ego leads to envy and it rots the bones of people big and small.
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We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.
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realized that the same drive and compulsion that had made me successful so early came with a price--as it had for so many others. It wasn't so much the amount of work but the outsized role it had taken in my sense of self. I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The
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Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you: your ego.
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False ideas about yourself destroy you. For
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As the Quaker William Penn observed, "Buildings that lie so exposed to the weather need a good foundation."
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That's how it seems to go: we're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. We start out knowing what is important to us, but once we've achieved it, we lose sight of our priorities. Ego sways us, and can ruin us. Compelled
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When Arthur Lee was sent to France and England to serve as one of America's diplomats during the Revolutionary War, instead of relishing the opportunity to work with his fellow diplomat Silas Deane and elder statesman Benjamin Franklin, he raged and resented them and suspected them of disliking him. Finally, Franklin wrote him a letter (one that we've probably all deserved to get at one point or another): "If you do not cure yourself of thi..
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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Creativity is a matter of receptiveness and recognition. This cannot happen if you're convinced the world revolves around you.
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magine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? And you looked at it in a way that entirely benefited them and not you. The cumulative effect this would have over time would be profound: You'd learn a great deal by solving diverse problems. You'd develop a reputation for being indispensable. You'd have countless new relationships. You'd have an enormous bank of favors to call upon d..
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You know what is a better response to an attack or a slight or something you don't like? Love. That's right, love.
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we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations." How"
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Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what's outside your control.
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Most of us are afraid of dying. But sometimes this fear begs the question: To protect what exactly? For a lot of people the answer is: hours of television, gossiping, gorging, wasting potential, reporting to a boring job, and on and on and on. Except, in the strictest sense, is this actually a life? Is this worth gripping so tightly and being afraid of losing? It doesn't sound like it.
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you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.
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The mind must be given relaxation--it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced--for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break--so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind. But it regains its powers if it is set free and relaxed for a while. Constant work gives rise to a certain kind of dullness and feebleness in the rational soul." --SENECA, ON TRANQU..
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The great strategist Saul Alinsky believed that if you "push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break through into its counterside."
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No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed."
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Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on--it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance--unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5b"
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If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled--have you no shame in that?" --EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28"
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school . . . it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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most people start from disadvantage (often with no idea they are doing so) and do just fine. It's not unfair, it's universal.
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He says the best way out is always through And I agree to that, or in so far As I can see no way out but through. --ROBERT FROST
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Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
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From sacrifice comes meaning. From struggle comes purpose. If you're to create something powerful and important, you must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force. If
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You must be able to explicitly say who you are building your thing for. You must know what you are aiming for--you'll miss otherwise. You need to know this so you can make the decisions that go into properly positioning the project for them. You
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If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
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