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“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
― Cal newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

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“craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives.”
― Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

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“The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard."

"Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"
-Joe DiMaggio”
― Joe DiMaggio

tags: baseball, joe-dimaggio, million-dollar-throw, sports

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“Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.”
― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

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“You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

tags: rorschach

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