#co

When you climb a mountain, look to the top and not to the rocks that surround you. Make sure of where you step as you climb, and do not leap, in case you loose your footing. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

#life

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#believed #composition #conductor #does #found

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ↗

— John Maxwell

#growth #life #life

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is. ↗

— John Green

#recognition #life

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #feelings #sir-walter-scott #education

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#life

The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you're probably going to be a bigger undead jerk, If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you're probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire. ↗

— Molly Harper

#molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs #unicorns #life

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. - Rhondda Valley ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#coal #coal-miner #glamorgan #hills #miners

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it. ↗

— Anne Holm

#consequences #i-am-david #life #smart #wisdom