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“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

Eoin Colfer in Artemis Fowl


“There are no have-to's, just choices”
― Eleanor Roosevelt


@torunn said
“There are no have-to's, just choices”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Although, inversely:

"Gravity. It's not just an option, it's the law.
-- not originally Adam Savage


A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Unknown


Das Gleiche lässt uns in Ruhe, aber der Widerspruch ist es, der uns produktiv macht.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Agreement soothes us, it is resitance that makes us productive. (my translation)


@ponderable said
Das Gleiche lässt uns in Ruhe, aber der Widerspruch ist es, der uns produktiv macht.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Agreement soothes us, it is resitance that makes us productive. (my translation)
Very good quote.


The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates


@great-big-stees said
The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
That's truly true, it absorbs you. 🙂


@great-big-stees said
The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
Just be aware that we don't speak of the Ancient Philosopher, but fo a fictional Character from Dan Millman's book "the peaceful warrior".

"Focusing energy" was not a concept in Anceint Greece.


Win or lose, do it fairly.


Michael Marie Jung: „Du hast die Konflikte nicht im Griff, solange sie dich im Griff haben.“

As long as your conflicts hav a gripü on you, you don't have a grip on them. (my translation)


“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitmane


Japanese wisdom:

If if isn't yours, don't take it.
If it isn't right, don't do it.
If it isn't true, don't say it.
If you don't know, remain silent.

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@grampy-bobby said
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"My left is weakened. My right is broken. The situation is excellent. I'm on the attack."
Field Communiqué to Headquarters, Marshal Foch (French Commander, 1851-1929)
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool
I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because all external expectations, all pride, all thoughts of
embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face
of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Steven Paul Jobs
1955 - 2011


The early bird gets the worm

The second mouse gets the cheese.🤔😲😉

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