"Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it."
source : http://blakemasters.com/
"Never Explain, Never Complain"
-- Cole Porter
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
-- Cardinal Richelieu
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Yep, for me it implies that a company has a sweet spot about the value of its employees. If it's too high they leave, if it's too low they are useless.
"Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the human mind than to presume that our views of science are ultimate. That our triumphs are complete. That there are no mysteries in Nature and that there are no new worlds to conquer."
Sir Humphry Davy
"You'll always have plenty of time to spend it." My Dad, to me, when I was a teenager and contemplating whether to do overtime, get an extra Summer job.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
"There are many people, particularly in sports who think that success and excellence is the same thing and they are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control… If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually… people who put excellence in first place have the patience to end up with success… An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and resents real excellence. In contrast, the person fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others." — Joe Paterno
"The proper thing for a parent to say is, 'I did badly at mathematics, but I had a very bad teacher. I wish I had had a good one.'" W. W. Sawyer, Vision in Elementary Mathematics (1964), page 5.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.
Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- The Coda (Dune Series)
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1. Learn From Everyone.
2. Follow No One.
3. Watch For Patterns.
4. Work Like Hell.
- Scott McCloud (Comic Book Artist, TED 2005)
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The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.
- Hugh MacLeod - http://changethis.com/manifesto/6.HowToBeCreative/pdf/6.HowT...
"It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide."
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[ 9.4 ms ] story [ 161 ms ] threadCFO asks "what if we spend our money training our staff and they leave?", CTO replies "what if we don't and they stay?" - JAVagueArgument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesTFysRzbc
You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
and:
Always marry a woman with small hands.
One should need to remind oneself of this every single day.
I actually just wrote about this yesterday: http://jimkeener.com/posts/tough-and-competent
EDIT: Attribution
Words to live by.
Martin Scorcese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neils_Abel
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
"We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose."
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - The Coda (Dune Series)
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1. Learn From Everyone. 2. Follow No One. 3. Watch For Patterns. 4. Work Like Hell. - Scott McCloud (Comic Book Artist, TED 2005)
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The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction. - Hugh MacLeod - http://changethis.com/manifesto/6.HowToBeCreative/pdf/6.HowT...
--Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars