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"This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it. You have a simple choice now. Live with it below the sea with Louis, or above the clouds with the Enterprise."

Better to do it than live with the fear of it, I always say

"What stands in the way becomes the way." M.A.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of creativity

• Orson Welles, I believe

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?

Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure. ... Failure leads to maturity; maturity leads to success.

• Steven Brust (from Jhereg)

I took an introduction to nursing class in high school where we had to know the names of all the bones, the chambers of the heart, CPR, etc. During one particular topic, one of the students kinda snapped and exclaimed "I'm too stupid for this!" The teacher, a badass ER nurse who was a single mom, rode a Harley, and had seen everything from electrocuted flesh to years-old bed sores, simply said "Good. That means you're learning."

I work with special needs kids, and whenever they complain about feeling stupid, I pass along that wisdom, but in a bit nicer way: "You're not stupid, you're just learning."

“He has no friends” - Dad

"Think for yourself and question authority." It's on a TOOL album.

Once is never, twice is always.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. - Marcus Aurelius

"If you are racist, I will attack you with the North"

If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.

A bit long, but charlie Chaplins speech in the dicktater. I mean dictator...

https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-

"Good things come to those who wait". It has been true so many times in my life.

Basically at any given moment, any from a random assortment of Simpsons quotes. Right now it’s “but when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?”

Pick your battles.

“If God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful.”

It is by doing whatever that one becomes whoever.

“You judge yourself by your intentions, but judge others by their actions”

This has helped me with my procrastination and helping to understand co-workers and people in general. Life gets busy and we always mean do get to things, but it’s really on what we actually do and complete that is real.

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs

This one is from my previous boss: “you gotta do what’s good for you, and nobody else”

Taught me to prioritize things that are important to me and not to live for the sake of others

Another was “you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves”

Taught me that some efforts are futile because unwillingness from others will result in deterioration to the status quo unless they’re willing to participate to move things forward

“What I’m about to tell you is top secret, a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission.”

• Elliot