Thoughts
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
A man from the city went on a retreat to the forest where he met an old woman who lived in a small shack. He said to her "It seems like a great deal of work to chop wood and build a fire just so you can make your tea." She responded "It seems like a great deal of work to wake up early and go to a job for 40 hours of every week to afford electricity
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• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen
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”Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” –Miles Kington
My plan to be positive today is off to a fucking shitty start.
Some things are better left unsaid. Which I generally realize right after I have said them.
My childhood punishments have become my adult goals:
Going to bed early
Not leaving my house
Not going to a party
Experience. Don’t observe.
Inhale. Don’t read.
Transfigure. Don’t shift.
Advocate. Don’t ponder.
Prove. Don’t promise.
Encourage. Don’t cut.
Imagine. Don’t worry.
Do. Don’t analyze.
Hear. Don’t listen.
Show. Don’t tell.
Give. Don’t take.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
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