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“We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?”
― The Doctor Matt Smith

“Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“What would your life be like if you gave yourself permission to be everything you wanted to be?”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“We know that new ideas often come from the cross-fertilisation of different fields, occurring in the mind of a widely knowledgeable person.”
― Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It

“Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity, which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, but fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“When you’re picking a project to pursue, try not to think of it as some massive commitment. Can you think of it as an exploration, as something you’re trying out? Approach your interests with a sense of curiosity and wonder, and remember to have fun!”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Emotion is contagious.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, the spirit of discovery, the spirit of creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness. You become a trailblazer, a pathfinder. You open new possibilities, new territories, new continents, so that others can follow.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“BODY - cultural tendency: maintain lifestyle; treat health problems with surgery and medication / Principle; prevent diseases and problems by aligning lifestyle to be in harmony with established, universally accepted principles of health.
MIND - cultural tendency: watch television: ‘entertain me’ / Principles: read broadly and deeply, continuous education
HEART - cultural tendency - use relationships with others to forward your personal, selfish interests / principle: deep, respectful listening and serving others brings greatest fulfilment and joy
SPIRIT - cultural tendency - succumb to growing secularism and cynicism / principle - recognise that the source of our basic need for meaning and of the positive things we seek in life is principles - which natural laws I personally believe to have their source in God.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Every mistake [is] just a data point.”
― John Zeratsky (author) Jake Knapp (author), Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“You only waste time if you’re not intentional about how you spend it.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. —CESARE PAVESE”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

“The important lesson for all of those wanting to memorise huge amounts of information is that the Navajo store this knowledge in their mythology. In stories. Vivid lively stories make information more memorable.”
― Lynne Kelly, Memory Craft: Improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

“Strange how deeply they reside and how one memory pulls out the next like links in a chain, until at times you find that even the subtlest thoughts you had decades ago are sill hidden somewhere inside of you.”
― Evan Harris Walker, The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
― Ignacio Estrada

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“An infinite mindset embraces abundance whereas a finite mindset operates with a scarcity mentality. In the Infinite Game we accept that “being the best” is a fool’s errand and that multiple players can do well at the same time.”
― Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

“In the end, a checklist is only an aid. If it doesn't aid, it's not right. But if it does, we must be ready to embrace the possibility.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“We are separate - utterly separate. We do not even share the same space or time with others.”
― Evan Harris Walker, The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life

“It is important to celebrate our victories, but we cannot linger on them. For the Infinite Game is still going and there is still much work to be done.”
― Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

“The picture was dizzying, stupefying - a Picasso collage pasted together from a collection of shattered ideas.”
― Evan Harris Walker, The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life

“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare