The days are long but the decades are short. When you envy someone, you pick the best part/s of their life and want them in yours. But it doesn’t work like that. You have to think would I be prepared to exchange everything in my life for everything in their life. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' / We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. The sword of Damocles, popularised by Cicero. Though rich and powerful, Dionysius II was supremely unhappy. His iron-fisted rule had made him many enemies, and he was tormented by fears of assassination. When a court flatterer named Damocles showered him with compliments and remarked how blissful his life must be, Dionysius offered him a taste of his life. While Damocles was being treated to succulent cuts of meat and lavished with scented perfumes and ointments, Dionysius also hung a razor-sharp sword from the ceiling. It was positioned over Damocles’ head, suspended only by a single strand of horsehair. From then on, the courtier’s fear for his life made it impossible for him to savour the opulence of the feast or enjoy the servants. The Master said, He who seeks only coarse food to eat, water to drink and a bent arm for pillow will without looking for it find happiness to boot. The reasonable person adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable person. Forced consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. The measure of fifteen minutes is entirely different for a man in step than for a man with nothing to do. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts - all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. I’m curious if that caused you to update your priors. To what end had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next? If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. You never look good making someone look bad. Victory on the battlefield begins with the shine on the boot. Of all the introductions I've ever had, that was the most recent. No person is fit to hold public office who isn’t perfectly willing to leave it at any time. Amazon’s Just Do It award. Showing up early costs very little and pays off handsomely in the long run. It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit. Microsoft required OEMs who wanted to use DOS to pay them per CPU shipped, regardless of whether the computer used DOS as its operating system. As a result, most OEM’s used DOS in all their products, massively increasing its market share. Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative. Calm seas never make a good sailor. To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? Compliment by name and criticize by category. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. What we should all do is work like an adaptive model of machine learning where you have your priors and you are constantly updating your priors with new and novel information so that your decisional weights are altered for optimisation When approaching a conversation that he knew would be difficult or he knew that he would have to get someone to do something that they didn’t want to do but also knew that they were thinking they may have to do it, Don Valentine would just sit down and say “So…” and just stay quiet, awkwardly for a long time It is the mark of a fine chess player to tip over his own king when he sees that defeat is inevitable, no matter how many moves remain in the game. Everybody feels scared when they’re about to do something brave. The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are right. The smarter someone is, the more they talk about what they don’t know and how much they don’t know. Marcus Cicero is famous for saying that the man who doesn’t know what happened before he was born goes through life like a child. That is a very correct idea. If you generalise Cicero, as I think one should, there are all these other things that you should know in addition to history. And those other things are the big ideas in all the other disciplines. It doesn’t help just to know them enough so you can repeat them back on an exam and get an A. You have to learn these things in such a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that, I solemnly promise you that one day you’ll be walking down the street and you’ll look to your right and left and you’ll think, ‘My heavenly days, I’m now one of the of the few most competent people in my whole age cohort.’ If you don’t do it, many of the brightest of you will live in the middle ranks or in the shallows. Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get. Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning. At the end of the Battle For Mobile Bay (“Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!”), Lieutenant Murphy of the Selma went aboard the Metacomet to surrender and he offered her commander, J. E. Jouett, his sword. Jouett, an old friend, took the sword hurriedly and exclaimed, “Pat, don’t make a fool of yourself. I have had a bottle on ice for the last half hour!” Jouett, who had been planning this for days, treated his friend to a sumptuous breakfast of oysters, crabs, and beefsteaks. In contrast, when General Page unconditionally surrendered Fort Morgan. Indignant, he broke his sword over his knee instead of surrendering it to the Federals. Page's situation was further worsened when he was suspected of destroying munitions and works within the fort after the surrender agreement. For this he was arrested by the Federal authorities and imprisoned.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque maximus, justo a rhoncus aliquam, metus ex accumsan tellus, sit amet finibus orci nunc eu dui. Donec ac auctor quam. Cras eget nunc sed sem lacinia placerat. Curabitur vitae pretium nibh, ut molestie velit. Ut mattis, felis eu accumsan mollis, felis lorem dapibus diam, eget euismod nisi metus nec sem. Etiam id lacus elit. Maecenas finibus quam non lectus hendrerit elementum. Morbi tristique mauris a libero dictum, eget dapibus sem vestibulum. Nam sit amet facilisis arcu, vel accumsan purus. Nam at velit at nulla consectetur rhoncus vitae non justo. 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