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"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

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"Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell."
— Peter Brock

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"A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too."
— Frederick Phillips Brooks (Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition)

tags: management
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"More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked"
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt (The Goal)

tags: business, software
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
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"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"
— John C. Maxwell

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"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
— William Arthur Ward

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
— Why The Lucky Stiff

tags: inspirational, programming
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"A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world." "
— From a Church in Sussex England c.1730

tags: leadership
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

tags: habit, inspirational, knowledge
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"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."
— Peter Drucker

tags: leadership
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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
— Peter Drucker

tags: leadership, management, power
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"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
— Laozi

tags: self-control
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"If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life)

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"Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing."
— Leo Babauta

tags: focus, inspiration, life
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"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
— J.M. Barrie

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"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, optimism
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""The pessimist complains about the wind; the optomist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
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— William Arthur Ward college administrator writer 1921-1994

tags: expectations, james, morgan, optimism, pessimism, realism, st-, wisdom
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
— Charles Darwin

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"Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival."
— W. Edwards Deming

tags: education
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"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes"
— Peter Drucker

tags: knowldege
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"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."
— Viktor E. Frankl

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"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

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"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand

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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
— William Arthur Ward

tags: leadership, teaching
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"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

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"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

tags: realization
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."
— Harry S. Truman

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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"The past has no power over the present moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: experience
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"When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

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"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: peace
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"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life."
— Eckhart Tolle

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"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

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"I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright."
— René Descartes (Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (Meditations on First Philosophy) [LATIN])

tags: logic, philosophy
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"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give."
— William Arthur Ward

tags: inspirational, leadership
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

tags: deliberate, die, essentials, inspirational, live, live-deliberately, suck-the-marrow, woods
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"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

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"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."
— Roald Dahl

tags: books, kids, readers, reading
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"Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: atlas-shrugged
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"The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance."
— Viktor E. Frankl

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"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
— Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)

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