Painter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt […]
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Quote of the Day “The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse.” — Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes” (April 5, 2015)
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“I can’t tell you how many times I don’t feel like training and tell myself, “I’ll just do one set and see how I feel.” You would think it would stop working at some point, but I almost always end up doing the whole workout.Just start. Do a little and see what happens.” James Clear Same. […]
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“Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Easy has a cost.” Choosing a new habit “When choosing a new habit […]
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SIGNS FOR YOUR DESK 1) I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking good either. 2) Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid doing altogether. 3) Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. 5) Please, Lord, let me prove that […]
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An investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The banker complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied, “Only […]
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More Dilbert cartoons http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-adams-favorite-dilbert-comics-2013-10
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“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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On the very first day, God created the cow. He said to the cow, “Today I have created you! As a cow, you must go to the field with the farmer all day long. You will work all day under the sun! I will give you a life span of 50 years.” The cow objected, […]
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“And then some”… three little words, and those three little words could transform our society. It could become a philosophy of life, a way of living. “The top people did what was expected of them…And Then Some. The were thoughtful to others, kind and considerate…And Then Some. They met their obligations wand responsibilities fairly and […]
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