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A Labourer, Teacher, Manager and a Leader

  • Knowing how to do a job is the job of labor.
  • Showing others is the accomplishment of a teacher.
  • Making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of a manager.
  • Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

Disciplined Dreamers have a Mission

Disciplined dreamers all have one thing in common: a mission. The mission is often risky, unconventional, and most likely tough as hell to achieve. But it is possible. The kind of discipline that turns a dream into a mission, and a mission into a reality, really just comes down to a process of setting goals.

Responsibilties

— William Butler Yeats

Life Doesn't Give Clear Signals

— Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

The Difference Between Thinking and Doing

We do things without thinking about them at all and we think things without having the slightest intention of doing them.

— Hector B. Poole from Twilight Zone Episode #52

Technology Tools Waste of Time: Bill Gates

All these tools of tech waste our time if we're not careful. I'm not a 24-hour-a-day tech person. I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer.

Bill Gates on quitting facebook and using time effectively.

Focus

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

— Ansel Adams -- Legendary Photographer

Focus Quote

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Quote about Focus

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Bringing Value to the Hour

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

— Jim Rohn

Success, Failure and Courage

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

— Winston Churchill

Making Your Decision to Commit

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Boundary Between Reality and Imagination

Whatever you imagine to be real, is real.

— Fanciful Mayor from South Park Imaginationland: Episode III (Season 11 Episode 3)

What the Mind Can Conceive It Can Achieve

It makes me think that... well maybe we all have the power to make things a reality.

— Eric Cartman from South Park Imaginationland: Episode III (Season 11 Episode 3)

Your Opponent is Yourself

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.

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