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Know When to Walk Away

By: admin | Date: September 29, 2018 | Categories: reading

Quitting is sometimes the best thing. It opens us up to new paths. https://hbr.org/2018/09/when-to-stick-with-something-and-when-to-quit A final benefit of perseverance is that we don’t know when our luck will turn. A recent study of the careers of nearly 29,000 artists, filmmakers, and scientists found that most of them had a hot streak in their career when […]

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Beneath the Surface

By: admin | Date: November 7, 2015 | Categories: quotes

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost. J. R. R. Tolkien

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Doing What Needs Doing

By: admin | Date: August 7, 2015 | Categories: quotes

“Albert Schweitzer, the German medical missionary, described at his hospital in the African jungle. He did not hire idealists for that hospital, nor did he hire people who had a righteous sense of how much they were giving to the world. He certainly did not hire people who set out “to do something special.”He only […]

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Persistence

By: admin | Date: July 27, 2015 | Categories: quotes

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a […]

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Comfort Can Kill You

By: admin | Date: February 28, 2012 | Categories: nature, quotes

Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing an amoeba into a perfectly stress-free environment: ideal temperature, optimal concentration of moisture, constant food supply. The amoeba had an environment to which it had to make no adjustment whatsoever. So you […]