Luke Allpress

Never perfect, always improving. -- I just use Twitter to catalogue quotes and thoughts.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

Parenting:
I love you
I will help
I don't know

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

GenAI is a calculator for words.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

Education: the act of helping others discover their gifts.

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Reasonable people can disagree.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, ‘here and now,’ without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Jose Ortegay Y. Gasset

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

You have to have something on the line for it to be called Character.
Atmosphere

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
Kite Runner

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If you wouldn't take their advice, don't tolerate their criticism.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.
Meditations

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No one can implicate me in ugliness.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye, and realizing that you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.
Dennis Lahane

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The patriarchy is bad for men too.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like.

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

To become indigenous is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.
-Braiding Sweetgrass

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If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity.

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Pride.

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When someone tomorrow asks what you did yesterday, do you want the answer to be "nothing"?

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

My amazing what?

[Luke Allpress @lukeallpress]

“Poor people use time to save money, Rich people use money to save time”