Adam J. Kurtz > Quotes

“Nobody gets everything they want. There will always be something. New problems arise. Instead of striving for perfection, strive for contentedness. Find a way to be happy what you already have & you'll always have exactly what you need.”
― Adam J. Kurtz

“It’s hard to have patience, especially when you aren’t actually sure what you’re waiting for. Have you ever felt ready for the next thing, but not sure what that thing is?”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“People love to attribute success to hard work, and that’s a huge part of it. Most things don’t happen by accident and are the product of effort. But so much relies on good timing, whether that’s being in the right place at any given moment, being uniquely positioned for an opportunity, or just connecting with another person at the exact right time for them, in their lives, too.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Comparing yourself to others is not a useful metric unless every variable is identical… which will never be possible.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Great displays of power are often surprisingly quiet.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Life demands we work to live, life requests we work more if we want more of the fun stuff, and the fun stuff demands we keep going for "just one more" drink or episode or hour or mile. This isn't inherently bad, even when it is exhausting.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Social media in particular shapes reality into something that feels competitive, because not only do we work to present the most idealized version of ourselves (or at least a specific version) we then opt in to real-time judgment: A system of likes and comments that purports to confirm or deny our “content’s” inherent worth in a way that we all understand is negative and even harmful, but also doesn’t stop us from paying attention.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Definisikan kesuksesan itu menurut versimu sendiri, gapailah tujuan dan cita-citamu, dan teruslah berkembang melampaui apa yang sudah kamu tulisankan”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“At a certain point I just embraced the fact that life is surprising.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“When looking inward, you can know the whole story. When it comes to others, there are huge gaps. There's too much about individual journey and motivation and resources and progress that we don't and can't know. Even if you do have insight (such as "healthy" competition with a colleague or teammate) there's still so much that simply doesn't correlate directly.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“You're not a bad person for comparing yourself to others. You're not a bad person for measuring where you are against where you're not. But you deserve better. Comparing yourself to others seems useful, and maybe feels good when you're "winning" but hurts even more when you're not. Either way, it's a false equivalency that doesn't yield any kind of practical metric.”
― Adam J. Kurtz

“Things will happen unexpectedly and you may be impacted in a way you were not prepared for. (This is actually extremely likely.)”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“You may realize that the way forward is to shed other parts of who you thought you were or what you thought was important—to make space for new information or identities.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Kamu mungkin sibuk, tapi menjadi sibuk bukanlah satu hal yang nyata. Dan itu benar-benar bukan sebuah kepribadian.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Unsolicited measurements from a system that can’t ever speak to our individual value, and in fact prefers to group us by category and filter us through an algorithm so they can serve us up to advertisers. The immediacy of this whole process makes the false equivalency plainly obvious.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“For many of us (me) the hardest part of trying anything is feeling like it’s going to be difficult. We are lazy. We are tired. But mostly, we are afraid we won’t be good at it, and then we will fail. We will fail and not win and be bad and everyone will know it, and we will know it, we will have quantitative proof of an attempt being made and not being good enough.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“You can try to organize your experience but you can not actually control time itself. Try to enjoy moments of rest when they come. The waiting is part of it.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Even "good advice" is intrinsically subjective. Accept it as suggestion and form your own ideas.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“If you could strip away all your distraction and obligations, who would you be left with?”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Failure is one of two main options in most scenarios. Failure happens. All the time. Constantly.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Setiap orang sibuk dengan caranya masing-masing. Namun, menjadi sibuk tidak membuatmu spesial, menjadi sibuk tidak membuatmu menjadi lebih penting, dan menjadi sibuk benar-benar bukanlah tanda kehormatan. Menjadi sibuk bukanlah sebuah sinyal bahwa kamu terlihat produktif.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“People may have things that you don't have. This does not make them "better" than you.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Part of what makes things better in time is that you yourself get better. You grow into your own. You hone your skills. You learn to embrace who you are and find strength in that identity.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“There will be a lot of adapting. There will be a lot of letting go. It is scary but necessary work to make, do, and make do in the service of becoming a version of yourself you can feel content living with. Release the baggage, your scars will be reminder enough of the lessons learned in the process.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Percayalah pada dirimu sendiri seperti kamu percaya pada orang-orang yang kamu cintai.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Sometimes, "busy" is shorthand for something else, in the same way that "tired" can mean anything from physically exhausted to extremely depressed.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“But you have to believe that eventually life will sort all of it out, and it might not be what you imagined, but it'll be right at the time.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Untuk jalan ke depan sana, kamu sendirilah yang menentukan.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“While it's true you don't have all THE time in the world, you do have all YOUR time in the world. You have literally your entire life to live with yourself, to adapt, and to accomplish goals.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“If at first you don't succeed, congratulations welcome to life it is hard sometimes but also mostly okay.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way