#om

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. ↗

#half #probably #supposed #today #tomorrow

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#achieve #cost #degradation #each #expensive

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#binds #brings #fate #heart #love

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#creative #dead #her #herself #human

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#aspiration #aspires #compares #estimates #higher

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#anyone #because #difficult #impossible #seems

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#good #good time #long #man #must

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#despise #else #like #nature #welcome

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color? ↗