Niall Marshall
@marshan
Niall Marshall
What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important .
"Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
“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.
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Brain Food: Letting Go
The general rule with advice is to be clear and concise, offer options (not directions) and be kind, or at least empathetic.
Tim Cohen • After the Bell: The Presidential Economic Advisory Council is good, but inadequate
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.”
— Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
“The secret is comprised in three words — Work, Finish, Publish.”
— Michael Faraday, one of history’s most influential scientists, offering advice to the young William Crookes, who had asked him the secret of his success as a scientific investigator
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.