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A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching... See more
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching... See more
Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.”
— Bob Dylan
— Bob Dylan
The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes, 1996
— Robert Hughes, 1996
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
At the heart of Nhat Hanh’s teachings is the idea that “understanding is love’s other name” — that to love another means to fully understand his or her suffering. (“Suffering” sounds rather dramatic, but in Buddhism it refers to any source of profound dissatisfaction — be it physical or psychoemotional or spiritual.)
When we feed and support our own
... See more"School requires you to learn about things after the answer has already been decided.
Life requires you to learn about things while the answer is in the process of being decided."
James Clear
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
― Miles Davis
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach