Go easy on yourself

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Pema Chödrön

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A yardstick of quality

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environmnet where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

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The magic of reading

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you.

And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead.

And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

Hector, The History Boys

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Keep it up, results will come!

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know… it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

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Development

It’s too big a world to be in competition with everybody else, the only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now.

Col. Potter

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A simple rule to life by

Life’s too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.

Louis C.K.

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Dream on!

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

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Just put in the work!

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

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A great investment

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

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