The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
Gene Roddenberry
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'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
Gene Roddenberry
There are four main questions you need to ask of every book:
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested
Francis Bacon
I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.
Tracy McMillan
Interesting post on Lifehack. As soon as I get to the bottom of the rut, time to work on getting unstuck. How many of these apply to you?
1. You are no longer excited about starting new projects.
2. You are just going through the motions.
3. You are not making a competitive salary.
4. You are doing the same thing that you’ve always done.
5. You are always complaining.
6. You are not on top of your industry.
7. You are not using your best skills.
8. You are making small mistakes with everyday tasks.
9. You are fighting with your manager.
10. You are doubting yourself.
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Eckhart Tolle
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
Toni Morrison
Once you label me you negate me.
Søren Kierkegaard
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu
Ambrose Bier
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
Mehmet Oz
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus AureliusEmail can make your life better
You can make strides in 5 fundamental areas by just sending 5 emails.
HAPPINESS
Every morning send a friend, family member or co-worker an email to say thanks for something.
JOB
At the end of the week, send your boss an email and sum up what you’ve accomplished.
GROWTH
Once a week email a potential mentor.
FRIENDSHIP
Email a good friend and make plans.
CAREER
Send an email to someone you know (but don’t know very well) and check in.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Witers
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
I should preface this by saying that the problem I am going to describe involves a bad word -- not the worst word, but a bad word -- though I've made sure that I only have to say it now and then one more time at the end. So if you want to distract any little kids for a second, please do so. One of the greatest threats we face is, simply put, bullshit. We are drowning in it. We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak. It infects every facet of public life, corrupting our discourse, wrecking our trust in major institutions, lowering our standards for the truth, making it harder to achieve anything.
And it wends its way into our private lives as well, changing even how we interact with one another: the way casual acquaintances will say "I love you"; the way we describe whatever thing as "the best thing ever"; the way we are blurring the lines between friends and strangers. And we know that. There have been books written about the proliferation of malarkey, empty talk, baloney, claptrap, hot air, balderdash, bunk. One book was aptly named "Your Call is Important to Us."
But this is not only a challenge to our society; it's a challenge we all face as individuals. Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth. And I believe that so much of your future and our collective future depends on your doing so. So I'm going to give you three honest, practical lessons about cutting the BS.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.
Isabel Briggs Myers
Day 1: Develop a Self-Reliant Mentality
Day 3: How to Open and Manage a Checking Account
Day 4: Keep a Regular Grooming and Hygiene Routine
Day 5: Create a Weekly Attack Plan
Day 6: How to Ace a Job Interview
Day 9: Managing Your Online Reputation
Day 10: How to Tie the Half-Windsor Necktie Knot
Day 12: What to Do If You Get in a Car Accident
Day 14: Establish a Simple Cleaning Routine and Stick to It
Day 15: How to Change a Flat Tire
Day 17: Essential Etiquette for Young Men
Day 18: Renting Your First Apartment
Day 21: Know Your Way Around a Kitchen
Day 22: How to Make Small Talk
Day 23: How to Iron a Dress Shirt
Day 24: How to Be a Savvy Consumer
Day 25: Establish an Exercise Routine
Day 26: 15 Maxims for Being a Reliable Man
Day 27: How to Shop for Groceries
Day 28: How to Jump Start a Car
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
Seth Godin
Instead of focusing on complying with management as a long-term strategy for getting more stuff and being more secure, we have a chance to describe a powerful vision for our future and to actually make it happen.
Seth Godin, Linchpin
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The following excerpt is from a speech by Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway. My recommendation, grab a cup of coffee, hit the link, read the article. Talk a deep breath and print it.
Then read the next day. Then outline a plan and start.
…the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.
You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.
What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you’ve got to have multiple models—because if you just have one or two that you’re using, the nature of human psychology is such that you’ll torture reality so that it fits your models, or at least you’ll think it does. You become the equivalent of a chiropractor who, of course, is the great boob in medicine.
It’s like the old saying, “To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” And of course, that’s the way the chiropractor goes about practicing medicine. But that’s a perfectly disastrous way to think and a perfectly disastrous way to operate in the world. So you’ve got to have multiple models.
And the models have to come from multiple disciplines—because all the wisdom of the world is not to be found in one little academic department. That’s why poetry professors, by and large, are so unwise in a worldly sense. They don’t have enough models in their heads. So you’ve got to have models across a fair array of disciplines.
And it’s not that hard to understand.
Terribly smart people make totally bonkers mistakes.
Charlie Munger
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt
Source: http://frugaldad.com
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Goals are the secret to getting what you want aren’t they? 9 out of 10 self improvement tips include goals. And for good reason. Jeff Goins has a different take on goals.
This new year, do something different: stop setting goals.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then making resolutions for another year is a sure-fire way to drive yourself crazy. I did it for years, and it got me nothing.
Resolutions are pipe dreams, and goals are a waste of time. They are designed to trick you into believing all you need to change your life is a plan.
But plans don’t work. Life is too chaotic and busy. For most of us, it’s impossible to stick to a list of goals for more than a few weeks, not to mention an entire year.
Most good things happen without a plan: friendships, falling in love, finding a job, and so on. If you want to make your new year count, you’ll need to be intentional — not by setting goals, but by making space in your life for what really matters.
Most productivity systems focus on beginning with the “end in mind” and setting goals to get there. Many are based on the assumption that in order to get what you want later, you have to give up what you want now. You work the plan, endure pain, and win.
Read the rest Here
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Lawrence J. Peter
The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.
Walt Disney
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
“Herodotus was aware of man’s sedentary nature and realized that to get to know Others you must set off on a journey, go to them, and show a desire to meet them; so he kept traveling, visiting the Egyptians and the Scythians, the Persians and the Lydians, remembering everything he heard from them, as well as what he saw for himself. In short, he wanted to know them because he understood that to know ourselves we have to know Others, who act as the mirror in which we see ourselves reflected; he know that to understand ourselves better we have to understand others, to compare ourselves with them, to measure ourselves against stem. As a citizen of the world, he did not believe that we should isolate ourselves from Others, or slam the gates in their faces. Xenophobia, Herodotus implied, is a sickness of people who are scared, suffering an inferiority complex, terrified by the prospect of seeing themselves in the mirror of the culture of Others. And his entire book is a solid construction of mirrors in which we keep getting a better and clearer view of, above all, Greece and the Greeks.”
Ryszard Kapuściński, The Other
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
BTW today is The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Wilt Chamberlain
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore
To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
Natalie Goldberg
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Richard Carlson
Stress is the 21st century equivalent of the Black Death.’
The most common causes of stress for workers are an excessive workload, the management style of a boss, restructuring in the workplace, and problems at home.
The CIPD report shows that a typical worker has 7.7 days off each year due to sickness, typically from minor illnesses such as colds, flu, stomach upsets, headaches and migraines.
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter Drucker
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