Quotes
by John Knierim · updated 12d ago
Quotes
by John Knierim · updated 12d ago
“I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.
I never felt out
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“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
— Dale Carnegie
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“You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency.
Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.”
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“So many advantages come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.
You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice your critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don't write the novel because people might not read it. You don't admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don't go to the gym becau
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“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.”
— Jeremy Goldberg
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"Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but by what one owns but we have discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning and that piling up material goods cannot fulfill the emptiness of lives that have no confidence or purpose!"- Jimmy Carter
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“You deserve to be loved and chosen — not almost loved, or almost chosen. ... Have the courage to let go of the people who leave your heart confused. Let go of the people who make you feel like you are compromising all that you desire, and all that you hope for, and all of the goodness and the beauty that you know exists in this world, for a skinny
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“People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around
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'A healthy person has a thousand wishes, a sick person has but one.' - An Indian proverb
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