things to ponder
Dr. Orison Swett Marden on habits:
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act.”
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act.”
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Only dead fish go with the flow.
-David Ogilvy
A happy life is not a life without struggle, it’s a life with meaningful struggle.
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“Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering.”
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“…modernity upholds growth as a supreme value for whose sake we should make every sacrifice and risk every danger… On the individual level, we are inspired to constantly increase our incomes and our standards of living. Even if you are quite satisfied with your current conditions, you should strive for more.” - Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
“Communication is about what is received, not what is intended. If there is a gap between what you are saying and what they are hearing, you have to find a new way to say it.”
More fiction has been told in Microsoft Excel than in books.