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“The unexamined life is not worth living”
According to Plato, said by Socrates in response to the guilty verdict…
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“Excellence is a habit”
Widely misattributed to Aristotle, the following quotation was, in fact, part of…
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“What I cannot create, I do not understand”
Nobel-Prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman was a master teacher as well as brilliant…
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Your White Whale.
“The #1 question that writers ask themselves: ‘I’ve got a million ideas.…
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Nobody wants to read your shit.
“It isn’t that people are mean or cruel. They’re just busy. Nobody…
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Act AS IF
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk…
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“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”
“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a…
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“…foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…”
“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a…
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If not you, then who?
Not quite a quote, but bear with me. When lecturing, Maslow would…
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