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in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith—true faith—was trusting in that love.
“Rather than helping children to think for themselves, solve their own problems and develop trust in themselves, parents tend to treat children as possessions.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“three rules to break the worry habit: RULE 1. FIND OUT PRECISELY WHAT IS THE PROBLEM YOU ARE WORRYING ABOUT. RULE 2. FIND OUT THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. RULE 3. DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE AT ONCE ABOUT SOLVING THE PROBLEM.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Putting it off as a way of life is one technique that you can use to avoid doing. A non-doer is very often a critic, that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.”
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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