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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.
Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write read more
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.