James Clear on the danger of justifying distractions
vutran | Aug. 12, 2020, 5:51 p.m.
"A difficult lesson to learn: Your most persistent distractions will seem justified to you."
— James Clear
Read More →Robert Greene on actions speak more about character than words
vutran | Aug. 12, 2020, 5:51 p.m.
“People will say all kinds of things about their motives and intentions... Their actions, however, say much more about their character.”
— Robert Greene
Robert Greene on the way to look at apprenticeship
vutran | Aug. 12, 2020, 5:50 p.m.
“See your apprenticeship as a kind of journey in which you will transform yourself, rather than as a drab indoctrination into the work world.”
— Robert Greene
Robert Greene on fulfilling life task over money and success
vutran | Aug. 12, 2020, 5:49 p.m.
“In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.”
— Robert Greene
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on sculpting our fortune by our hands
vutran | Aug. 11, 2020, 6:01 p.m.
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Read More →Michael Feathers on the beginning of a surgery
vutran | Aug. 11, 2020, 6 p.m.
"Surgery is never pretty, particularly at the beginning."
— Michael Feathers in Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Howard Thurman on passion
vutran | Aug. 11, 2020, 5:59 p.m.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
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