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What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how
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“S has secular humility to the degree that: (i) S recognizes that she shares with all humans the important limitations of helplessness, fallibility, and moral frailty; (ii) S recognizes her relative insignificance in the grand scheme of things; and (iii) in virtue of (i) and (ii), S is (a) resistant to misplaced pride in her excellences and achievements, envy, and indignation at being slighted by others and (b) disposed toward forgiveness, gratitude, open-mindedness, low self-focus, and feelings of awe.”
― The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility
― The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility
“To make matters worse, our customers don’t have a very good understanding of what we do, how we do it, or why we do it—the end result is that they put unrealistic demands on us and don’t give us the support that we need to accomplish their goals.”
― Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
― Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
“Por el camino hasta perdimos el derecho de llamarnos americanos, aunque los haitianos y los cubanos ya habían asomado a la historia, como pueblos nuevos, un siglo antes de que los peregrinos del Mayflower se establecieran en las costas de Plymouth. Ahora América es, para el mundo, nada más que los Estados Unidos: nosotros habitamos, a lo sumo, una sub América, una América de segunda clase, de nebulosa identificación.”
― Las venas abiertas de América Latina
― Las venas abiertas de América Latina
“One writes out of a need to communicate and to commune with others, to denounce that which gives pain and to share that which gives happiness. One writes against one’s solitude and against the solitude of others. One assumes that literature transmits knowledge and affects the behavior and language of those who read.… One writes, in reality, for the people whose luck or misfortune one identifies with—the hungry, the sleepless, the rebels, and the wretched of this earth—and the majority of them are illiterate.”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“Convenient targets include our “pointy-haired bosses” whom we believe are barely competent enough to tie their own shoes, the “paper-pushing fools” in the department down the hall from us that demand excessive amounts of documentation, and our “stupid users” who often don’t know what they want, and when they do tell us what they want, it never makes sense anyway. Naturally, we never blame ourselves; we’re perfect after all.”
― Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
― Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
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