Quote 98
Your energy is stagnant. It needs to move. Whatever you’re feeling is a stink arising out of the stagnant water. Once it becomes a river, your problem will disappear. Because you need to flow. -Satyakaam Ramkrishan
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Quote 97
There was a young man who said “Damn! I perceive with regret that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram.” -Maurice E. Hare
Quote 96
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they…
How I (almost) quit caffeine in 1 year
Splitting headache at 10am. Not a fine way to start the day. For the last 10+ years, I’ve consumed 2-5 cups of coffee every day. I was hooked to coffee is an understatement. It had gotten so bad that if I didn’t get coffee by 9am, I’d get a debilitating migraine for the rest of the day. I also had restless sleep, bordering on insomnia, where I wouldn’t sleep at all for a…
Quote 95
All that truly matters in life is profoundness of experience and impact of activity. -Sadhguru
Quote 94
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -Rumi
How Changing One Sentence led to 2.5x more Reviews
June 2019 Fifteen years in business and we had a measly three reviews on Google. Sigh. I reminded myself that this is exactly why I moved back from the Bay area to work on the family business – to use technology to expand. Let’s fix this! I’d read somewhere that people are most willing to review right after their experience – good or bad. I’d been itching to use…
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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We do not win our strength and stability by mastering ideas, but by being mastered by them—held in their grip. -Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation. It is sad to reflect how much motiveless insipidity there is among us that is steadily resolving itself into ethical rot, for no other reason than that it has never been awakened into vigor and electrified into effect by the touch of a supreme purpose. -Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Money is made on a competitive plane. Wealth is made on a creative plane. -Wallace Wattles
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Truth = Honesty Love = Compassion Courage = Valor Truth + Love = Justice Truth + Courage = Honor Love + Courage = Sacrifice Truth + Love + Courage = Spirituality The absence of Truth, Love, and Courage is Pride, the opposite of which is Humility. -Steve Pavlina
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For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark… Endure your troubles today. Bear up and be the man I expect you to be. -Beowulf
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -Abraham J. Heschel
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty. -Frank Herbert (Dune)
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
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“The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. -Pascal
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I came over from Greece when I was 17 and started out working in a market. I worked so much that I supported my mother, my father, and put my brother through college. Now my kids have everything, and don’t appreciate anything. You Americans cut ’em off when they’re 18. And that’s probably for the best. But we can’t do that, cause we’re Greek. They’re ours until…
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.…
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Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. -Bruce Lee
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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. -Machiavelli
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. -Mark Twain
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general…
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What man actually needs is not some tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. -Viktor Frankl
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Man’s commonest weakness, his aversion to being unpleasantly conspicuous, pointed at, shunned, as being on the unpopular side. Its other name is Moral Cowardice, and is the supreme feature of the make-up of 9,999 men in the 10,000. -Mark Twain
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. -George Eliot (Middlemarch)
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Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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Organizations are not a source of security but they are a source of identity. -Bill Taylor, on Loyalty at Work
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Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. -T. K. Whipple
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Understand the difference between dreams, goals, and expectations. Dreams live in far off places. They may come to us while we walk, hike, bike or take a shower. I like to think of dreams as the shining gemstones, just out of reach. Knowing that we have the desire to reach out and grab these gemstones gives us the motivation to get out of bed each morning. Goals are specific, measurable,…
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The customers are buying the product just as fast as you can make it – or usage is growing just as fast as you can add more servers. Money from customers is piling up in your company checking account. You’re hiring sales and customer support staff as fast as you can. -Marc Andreesen on product/market fit
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If your friend was standing next to you and their hair was on fire, that fire would be the only thing they really cared about in this world. It wouldn’t matter if they were hungry, just suffered a bad breakup, or were running late to a meeting—they’d prioritize putting the fire out. If you handed them a hose—the perfect product/solution—they would put the fire out immediately and go on their way.…
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. -Walter Pater
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Tillich
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All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. -William Shakespeare
Quote 38
..if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material, because guess what, man, we don’t like to admit it, because we’re raised to think lack of confidence is synonymous with paralysis, but, let’s just be honest with ourselves and each other: we can only hope to be good writers. We can…
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I want to be my own reader. -Kartik Subbu when asked who does he want to write for
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Goethe
Quote 40
Remade website to be more professional looking, faster, more focused towards SEO, mobile friendly. I could write many pages on this :) but following online guides will get you in the ballpark Started writing interesting content. Truly good content is a PITA and you need to be a decent writer to make something compelling, but our first good article got us more traffic than the entire site with over…
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work…
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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion. -Nassim Taleb
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Life gets interesting when we fail, because it’s a sign that we’ve surpassed ourselves. -Clemenceau
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Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die—and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy—and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. -Stephen Jay Gould
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You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. -Greg McKeown
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Be everything to everybody and you’ll be nothing for yourself. -John Rushton
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
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Most people will never be successful because most people remain children, consciously, and never evolve. They remain purely self-indulgent and self-absorbed. They never develop convictions that drive them to dedicate their lives to a particular service and audience. They aren’t willing to learn and transform themselves for a commitment. Instead, they only commit to something so long as it benefits…