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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“If you don't fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win.”
― Henrik Joreteg

“It showed me that you must always have respect for your competitor, but don’t be in awe.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned that only through living life’s ups and downs can you develop empathy; that in order not to suffer, or at least not to suffer so much, one must become comfortable with impermanence.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

“If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups or downs of life. And only then would you be ready to develop that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything around you.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

“I knew that to lead effectively I needed to get some things square in my own mind—and, ultimately, in the minds of everyone who works at Microsoft. Why does Microsoft exist? And why do I exist in this new role? These are questions everyone in every organization should ask themselves. I worried that failing to ask these questions, and truly answer them, risked perpetuating earlier mistakes and, worse, not being honest.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

“If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“The fool is the precursor to the savior.”
― Carl Jung

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
― Stephen McCranie

“When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday.”
― Stephen McCranie

“Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.”
― Stephen McCranie

“I'm glad you exist”
― Stephen McCranie

“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”
― Ibn Taymiyyah

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Psychiatrist Ronald Fairbairn may have said it best when he wrote, regarding children and child development, “It is better to be a sinner in a world ruled by God than to live in a world ruled by the Devil.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“As a result, many parents see behavior as the measure of who our kids are, rather than using behavior as a clue to what our kids might need.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“Finding the good inside can often come from asking ourselves one simple question: “What is my most generous interpretation of what just happened?”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“Building resilience is about developing the capacity to tolerate distress, to stay in and with a tough, challenging moment, to find our footing and our goodness even when we don’t have confirmation of achievement or pending success.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“underneath perfectionism is always an emotion regulation struggle. Underneath “I am the worst artist in the world!” is a child who could envision the picture they wanted to paint and is disappointed in their final product; underneath “I stink at math” is a child who wants to feel capable and instead feels confused; underneath “I let down my team” is a child who can’t access all the moments they played well and is mired in their missed layup. In each case, that disappointment—or the mismatch between what a child wanted to happen and what actually happened—manifests as perfectionism. And, because perfectionism is a sign of an emotion regulation struggle, logic won’t help—we can’t convince a child that her art is great or that math concepts are hard for everyone or that one missed shot doesn’t define an athlete.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be