The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
Pema Chödrön
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The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
Pema Chödrön
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environmnet where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
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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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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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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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Life’s too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.
Louis C.K.
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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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