For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
– Steve Jobs
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
– Vincent Van Gogh
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the government. You realise that you control your own destiny.
– Albert Ellis
If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.
– Unknown
People build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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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.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t
– Bill Nye
Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organisational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic National Bank of New York. He noticed a piece of paper that a co-worker had stapled to his cubicle wall. It read:
‘The six phases of a project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Rewards for the uninvolved’
Dattner writes: ‘I have yet to come across a more accurate description of how most dramas play out in our working lives.’
― Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – But Some Do
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
– Nathaniel Branden
The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.
– DeSeaux
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