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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).
I have also liked carl sagan quotes :)
Also this one
I felt it was a good quote for my book, as the intro the "Interviewing".
Perhaps somewhat oddly it's...
Reminds me that none of this really matters all that much so don't worry about it :)
😂
I like reading biography and one of person that embodied this spirit of never giving up despite overwhelming odds against him is definitely this guy to me.
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ― Winston Churchill.
I'm actually a fan of the quotes on Ventari's Tablet in the game Guild Wars 2. (Kudos to whoever did the writing on this, A+ job.)
I. Live life well and fully, and waste nothing.
II. Do not fear difficulty. Hard ground makes stronger roots.
III. The only lasting peace is the peace within your own soul.
IV. All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed.
V. Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil or sorrow.
VI. Act with wisdom, but act.
VII. From the smallest blade of grass to the largest mountain, where life goes—so, too, should you.
The second one is particularly good when the going gets tough. I also have a few nautical-themed proverbs, like "a ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for" and "smooth seas don't make skilled sailors". Don't know where I picked those up.
When i personally think.
1.Life is a short, days are numbered. we don't get choose our times. It means
Celebrated every breath. every moment.live life enjoy fully.
2.Work every single day like it is your last day on a earth.
Not really a quote, more of a monologue by Earl Nightingale
"Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take and it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Now let’s take another ship and just like the first and only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach and a derelict. It can’t go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance."
I recently read this and really like it :
which i guess it would translate in english to something like
give everything, but up
My favorite motivational quote:
"'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off"
-Taylor Swift
I'm not joking, either. When I'm frustrated or down I put that song on and it perks me up. It's silly, poppy, and energetic and it reminds me that nothing is important enough to jeopardize my health and well-being.
My failing tends to be the voice in the back of my head that tells me, its too hard, thats OK, its not your fault, its alright to give up. So i keep this quote from Frank Herbert above my desk...it puts me back on track:
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune
oh.. that quote is so strong, sad and true... thanx for sharing
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Alva Edison
“I am invincible as long as I’m alive.”
-John Mayer
Keep putting one foot infront of the other and one day you'll look back and have climbed a mountain
“We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.”
"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
That is one of my favorites as well!!! And since I am a country fan whenever I need a dose of that quote I listen to this song
"If video games have taught me anything, it's when I'm facing enemies that I know I'm going in the right direction."
Can't stop. Won't stop.
For how long? ( I will get there eventually )
This is the question that I ask myself whenever I'm stuck.
Lately, my favorite reminder comes from Gary Vaynerchuk:
"You are going to die."
— Oscar Wilde
source
As I read more and more, my life changes, not because of the book itself, but because of the habits I develop.
"Tomorrow/next week/next month this time, everything will be okay and this bug/something else will be behind me" - Me 😄
I've never been wrong with this one before :)
Time always makes everything better! And usually the more desperate the situation seems at the time the better the story it makes later on 😊
"The greatest power is often simple patience" - Joseph E. Cossman
Used to have it on a bookmark but I lost it somewhere!
"Work Hard, and be patient" is something I am relying heavily on currently as I strive to get better.
“You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that you want others to remember you for later.” – Greg Plitt
This reminds me of a quote I got from a sports psychology book,
You have to believe in yourself if you want to achieve great things. 🤗
Trying is the first step towards failure.
This is a quote from a little known ancient Indian story book called Panchatantra.
My all-time favorite quote...