“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: People learn as they teach.” - Seneca
“Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.”
-- La Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
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“The journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a purpose that requires challenge and contribution.”
#brendonburchard
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
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“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
-- C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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Even when we’re most sure that love can’t conquer all, it does anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.
“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.” ~@ANNELAMOTT
“From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”
-- Henry Matisse with Pierre Courthion, Chatting with Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
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“Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.”
-- Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
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If you have a choice between consistency and intensity pick the former. It’s easier to start, likely last’s longer, and generally provides more significant results.
Greg Zlevor
#leadership#wisdom
Johnson and Johnson is leading the way on multiple fronts - finding a vaccine, supporting front line workers, discovering new therapies, etc. Thankful to J&J for their commitment and work. https://t.co/tQ3ISp70Jx
“The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.”
-- Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
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