Yesterday was one of those days...
By the end of the day I was stressed and crabby. Usually when this happens, I like to reach for a quote to help put things back into perspective. Yesterday I remembered this one that my cousin, who works in hospice, shared with me.
When I'm stressed I try to remember something a patient much too young told me right before he died. He said that he missed being stressed and when I asked why, he stated "Being stressed means that you have a purpose. That you are needed and relied on."
Obviously, that straightened me out real quick. Another one of my favorite quotes, which is a little more light, is the one in the cover image! What's your favorite goto quote when you need a pick me up?!
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This is a famous Bill Gates quote but it wouldn't shock me if he was quoting someone else:
I've been using that a lot lately, in advice to myself and others. I think it's got a lot of truth and helps put progress and time into perspective.
This is one of my favorites from Michael Scott...
Dang! Beat me to it!
This one is really good.
My all-time favorite quote...
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
THIS!!!! 😍
Amazing. And, may I add, a very likely longer lifespan with modern medicine being a thing.
Here is mine:
Let's think of the positives as personal, general, and permanent.
Let's think of the negatives as impersonal, specific, and temporary.
Let's actually go out of our way to inject these things into our discussions.
-Original author unknown
I like that.
Love it! This reminds me of something my grandma always used to say,
- me.
I see what you did there!
😂 I LOVE this!
There was a comic called Zen Pencils that ran a strip quoting writer Charles Bukowski. The artist was asked to take down the strip by Bukowski's publishers, but the Internet never forgets.
When I'm facing a really difficult bug, I remember a phrase from one of my favorite videogames, Final Fantasy X: "This is it. (...). It all begins here".
In the same way, if I'm losing hope, I repeat another one from the same videogame series, Final Fantasy XIII:
It's been a hard few months and those phrases are still giving me strength to move forward
I'm a huge John Green fan and these two are often what I reach for when I need to remember that it's all going to be OK.
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." Often wrongly attributed to Buddha, but is from Edward de Bono. My shortened version of it is "Saying vs. doing."
I like this one because in development there can be strong ideas or regular meetings to brainstorm/generate ideas. Sometimes there is too much emphasis placed on what is the "best" idea. At the end of the day, if the best solutions are never implemented, what good are they? Talking about ideas can be fun, but consistently leaving those discussions without any follow up actions is draining in the long run. Time spent preparing and talking about ideas can sometimes be better spent on doing something to make progress.
Could not agree more!
I am someone who struggles with other's opinions as well and caring about them, I REALLY like that last one!
I don't even know where I picked it up but it was almost life-saving :)
No gods or kings
Only man
It is from Bioschock, I got it on the door of my office, so before entering to work I get a reminder that we build software, no special people, but all of us
Well I'm a huge fan of The Dark Knight: Trilogy and the quotes that drives me crazy is from this series. These quotes keeps me motivated no matter what.
I basically live my life by this:
Go try! Even if you fail, you’ll now be smarter, and either know what you did wrong, or see that you shouldn’t be doing this. Besides, it’s way easier to live knowing that you tried.
This one is not for getting the mood up bot for getting motivated to work on things that matter (at least to me).