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“If you want to change the world… don’t ever, ever ring the bell.”
― William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

“If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right. And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.”
― William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Feel grounded and think positive in 10 simple steps

“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is simple. It is rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now.”
― Carmen M. Reinhart, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

“Had we built Blackbird in the year 2010, the world would still have been awed by such an achievement. But the first model, designed and built for the CIA as the successor to
the U-2, was being test-flown as early as 1962. Even today, that feat seems nothing less than
miraculous.”
― Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos;, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed