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“How would you dispose of a body so it wouldn’t be found?” I’m not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, “If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I’ve already disposed of.” “It’s joking.” Ratthi
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“Goethe: “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
“Getting something wrong doesn’t mean you have failed. Instead, you have just learned what does not work. You now know to try something else.”
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
“When physicians are under time pressure, they are apparently more inclined to choose a quick-fix solution, despite its serious downsides.”
― Noise
― Noise
“The final element is execution. The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it. Good intentions are not enough—you’re not implementing the strategy that you intend if you don’t spend your time, your money, and your talent in a way that is consistent with your intentions. In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy. All of these factors—priorities, balancing plans with opportunities, and allocating your resources—combine to create your strategy.”
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
― How Will You Measure Your Life?
“What is grief, but love that’s lost its object?”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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