Wednesday Wisdom

DAILYSTOIC.COM -- A person isn't brave, generally. We can only be brave, specifically. In the moment. This is true for you or me or the most decorated soldiers. The criteria for two highest U.S. military honours are virtually identical but action in the moment is what changes everything. It's not fighting off of 12 insurgents for 5 hours -- it's sprinting across an open plain for 20 seconds, exposed to gunfire on three sides, to aid a fallen comrade. Twenty seconds of insane, embarrassing bravery. That's what courage is. Think about that today, as you're deciding whether to speak up or go along with something you disagree with. Give yourself a few seconds of courage. Something great will come of it. Promise. ...

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UNMISTAKABLECREATIVE.COM -- When we read self-help books, listen to podcasts, or attempt some behavioral change, we overlook that blatantly obvious variable that throws off every formula for success: YOU. We mimic rather than model someone's advice. When it doesn't work, we conclude the advice is bad. But maybe the advice isn't bad. Perhaps it's ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "Some men see things as they are and ask why? Others dream things that never were and ask why not." -- George Bernard Shaw ...

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LEADERSHIPNOW.COM -- "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." (Walter Lippman) -- "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." (Anthony Jay) -- "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." (Howard Aiken) -- "Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future." (James Bertrand) -- "The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail." (Edwin H. Land) -- "The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity." (Margaret J. Wheatley) ...

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QUOTEFANCY.COM -- "Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything." -- Robert Rubin ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -- Benjamin Disraeli ...

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IZQUOTES.COM -- "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." -- Mark Twain ...

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IZQUOTES.COM -- "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." -- Thomas Jefferson ...

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IZQUOTES.COM -- "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world, henceforth, will be run by synthesizers: people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely." -- E. O. Wilson ...

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GOALCAST.COM -- "Vision without execution is just hallucination." "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." "Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." "Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain." "One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do." "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." -- Antony Jay ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." -- Jacob M Braude ...

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[H/T SAHIL BADRUDDIN] -- AZQUOTES.COM -- "Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him." -- Epictetus ...

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UNMISTAKABLECREATIVE.COM -- In a world of rapid feedback loops, exponential growth, and billion-dollar valuations, the long game is a dying art. Nobody wants to play the long game. They confuse attention with accomplishment and obsess over metrics instead of mastery. But sustainable success is the result of playing the long game. The long game requires: Patience, Grit, Persistence, Flexibility, Adaptability. If you're up for playing the long game, do something today you'll be glad you did 10 years from now. ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- GOALCAST -- Jim Carrey teaches you how to silence your inner demons and dream up a life worth living. ...

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FS.BLOG -- "Most geniuses -- especially those who lead others -- prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities." -- Andy Benoit ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -- Mark Twain ...

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QUOTEFANCY.COM -- "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet." -- Michael Crichton ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." -- Bill Gates ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- DAILYSTOIC.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah's "Philosophy of Happiness:" "Learn to desire the thing that happens, and not try to mould events to their desires."] ARTICLE: Two thousand years ago the Stoic, Epictetus, who as a crippled slave has faced adversity after adversity, echoed the same: "Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy." Amor fati [a love of fate] is the Stoic mindset that you take on for making the best out of anything that happens ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." -- Anatole France ...

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VIRGIN.COM -- #1. "Two roads diverged in a wood ... I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost ... #6. "A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - William G.T. Shedd ... #4. "There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask 'What if I fall?' Oh but my darling, What if you fly?" - Erin Hanson ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- Famous Quotes from Dr. Seuss, Oscar Wilde, J.K. Rowling, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Allen Saunders, William Shakespeare, Bernard Baruch, Anais Nin, Bob Marley, George Bernard Shaw, Helen Keller, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, John Lennon, Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wayne Gretzky, Abraham Maslow. ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -- H. Jackson Browne ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Among his writings are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Quote #1 - "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Quote #2 - "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ...

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DAILYSTOIC.COM -- We waste time, we busy ourselves, we prioritize trivialities. Marcus Aurelius weighed every sentence he spoke and every action he took with a question: "is this necessary?" When the answer to that question is exclusively, "yes," you will have enough time in the day. "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- GOALCAST.COM -- #8: If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.... #1: It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.... #5: Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.... #10: Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. -- Thomas Jefferson; 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In his 2007, Mombasa Aga Khan Academy speech, Hazar Imam reminded us of this quote.] ARTICLE: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain ...

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VIRGIN.COM -- #8. "Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr ... #6. "I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not."- Michael Pollan

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