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"I decided not to finish this one right now. Maybe I’ll come back to it later, it seems fun—but I’ve got a lot of other things demanding my reading time" — Feb 13, 2026 08:59AM
"I decided not to finish this one right now. Maybe I’ll come back to it later, it seems fun—but I’ve got a lot of other things demanding my reading time" — Feb 13, 2026 08:59AM
“I tell my students they can procrastinate as long as they follow three rules: 1. No going onto the computer during their procrastination time. It’s just too engrossing. 2. Before procrastinating, identify the easiest homework problem. (No solving is necessary at this point.) 3. Copy the equation or equations that are needed to solve the problem onto a small piece of paper and carry the paper around until they are ready to quit procrastinating and get back to work. “I have found this approach to be helpful because it allows the problem to linger in diffuse mode—students are working on it even while they are procrastinating.” —Elizabeth Ploughman, Lecturer of Physics, Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia”
― A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
― A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
“As I learned to be Shepherded, most of the time, I didn’t really know how to discern His leading. This is the million-dollar question: “Is that me or God?” I noticed that rules, principles, and axioms are enticing to the flesh; they require less relationship, less giving up control. You can follow a principle without ever co-partnering with Jesus.”
― Love Secrets
― Love Secrets
“First sight is when you can see what’s really there, not what your head tells you ought to be there.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“To lessen your fear and regard to the opinion of the world, think how soon the world will disregard you, and have no more thought or concern about you, than about the poorest animal that died in a ditch...Is it therefore worth your while to lose the smallest degree of virtue, for the sake of pleasing so bad a master, and so false a friend, as the world is?”
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“That’s the trouble with a brain: it thinks more than you sometimes want it to.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
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