#roc

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#challenge #choices #decisions #hard #life

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#commodities #equality #just #man #mass

I recommend that you focus on both substance and process of your goals. I believe that both are equally important: by setting a high-quality SMART goal you will enable yourself to be conscious and your actions will carry more meaning; meanwhile, it is the execution of the SMART goals strategy that separates achievers from the rest of the people. ↗

— Anna Stevens

#goal-setting #goals #process #smart-goals #substance

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end. ↗

— Richard B. Knight

#writing-life #writing-process #equality

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intelligence #science #scientific-process #success #truth

Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been ↗

— James Patterson

#james #max #maximum #patterson #ride

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. ↗

— John Green

#failure #side-effects #van-houten-being-a-douche #experience

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ↗

— Josh Groban

#either #opera #rock #rock star #shower

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons

I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consommé or the coffee, which, of course, is a simple matter of chemistry. The albumin contained in the eggshell has the property of collecting and binding the rubbish that floats in the dark liquid, which can then be removed and discarded in a single reeking clot: a perfect description of the writing process. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #writing-process #experience