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"I'm 25 this year and it feels like I'm behind in a lot of things in life. People are saying this book is helpful for those who want to build up good habits so here I am. I'm only a few pages in and I'm already beyond impressed. James Clear really knows his thing." — Jan 07, 2023 09:51PM
"I'm 25 this year and it feels like I'm behind in a lot of things in life. People are saying this book is helpful for those who want to build up good habits so here I am. I'm only a few pages in and I'm already beyond impressed. James Clear really knows his thing." — Jan 07, 2023 09:51PM
“It’s not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.”
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“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.”
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
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“No, your job as a leader is to inspire and to galvanize, not to share your distraught thoughts. You make your people dispirited.”
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“Young people were braver and often more perceptive than the adults. And they weren’t shy about guts and gore. They wondered about their dead parakeet’s everlasting soul, but really they wanted to know how fast the parakeet was putrefying in the shoebox under the maple tree.”
― Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
― Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
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