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Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 653699 “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
Eoin Colfer in Artemis Fowl
Gothenburg
Joined 11 Mar '16 Moves 26713 “There are no have-to's, just choices”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Joined 18 Jan '07 Moves 12361 @torunn said
“There are no have-to's, just choices”
― Eleanor RooseveltAlthough, inversely:
"Gravity. It's not just an option, it's the
law.
-- not originally Adam Savage
Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 653699 A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Unknown
Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 653699 Das Gleiche lässt uns in Ruhe, aber der Widerspruch ist es, der uns produktiv macht.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Agreement soothes us, it is resitance that makes us productive. (my translation)
Gothenburg
Joined 11 Mar '16 Moves 26713 @ponderable said
Das Gleiche lässt uns in Ruhe, aber der Widerspruch ist es, der uns produktiv macht.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Agreement soothes us, it is resitance that makes us productive. (my translation)Very good quote.
Joined 14 Mar '04 Moves 173583 The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
Gothenburg
Joined 11 Mar '16 Moves 26713 @great-big-stees said
The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
SocratesThat's truly true, it absorbs you. 🙂
Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 653699 @great-big-stees said
The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
SocratesJust be aware that we don't speak of the Ancient Philosopher, but fo a fictional Character from Dan Millman's book "the peaceful warrior".
"Focusing energy" was not a concept in Anceint Greece.
Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 653699 Win or lose, do it fairly.
Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 653699 Michael Marie Jung: „Du hast die Konflikte nicht im Griff, solange sie dich im Griff haben.“
As long as your conflicts hav a gripü on you, you don't have a grip on them. (my translation)
Gothenburg
Joined 11 Mar '16 Moves 26713 “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitmane
Gothenburg
Joined 11 Mar '16 Moves 26713 Japanese wisdom:
If if isn't yours, don't take it.
If it isn't right, don't do it.
If it isn't true, don't say it.
If you don't know, remain silent.
Behind the scenes
Joined 27 Jun '16 Moves 3077 @grampy-bobby said
Quotes You Like
"My left is weakened. My right is broken. The situation is excellent. I'm on the attack."
Field Communiqué to Headquarters, Marshal Foch (French Commander, 1851-1929)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 all external expectations, all pride, all thoughts of
embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face
of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steven Paul Jobs
1955 - 2011
Joined 14 Mar '04 Moves 173583 The early bird gets the worm
The second mouse gets the cheese.🤔😲😉
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