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“When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.”
― Michael Hyatt, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World

“Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It’s about effectively serving others in the ways I’m best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“We live in a permissive society that won’t count any sin against you as an adult, but will count the calories in your kids’ hot lunches.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“we think of our children as amazingly fragile and entirely moldable. Both assumptions are mistaken. It’s harder to ruin our kids than we think and harder to stamp them for success than we’d like.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn’t know how to identify smart and not smart.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything