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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#human-nature #life

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#engineering #hacker #i #i do #might

You’ve made that clear. But why do you assume I’ve done something wrong? Have I ever lied to you, or kept anything from you? I trusted you. You assume I’ve never been hurt and that trust comes easily to me. You’re too busy guarding your own heart to realize that maybe I’m not the arsehole people expect me to be. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#beautiful-stranger #christina-lauren #max-stella #sara-dillon #beauty

Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes. ↗

— Dov Seidman

#business

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own ↗

— Amit Abraham

#foolishness #nose-poking #business

How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” - Seth Godin, sethgodin.com ↗

— Seth Godin

#networking-marketing #social-media #business

Consultants show you way forward and consider the job done, conveniently forgetting that if a child is only shown where to go and not how to walk towards it, he will never reach there. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#business #consultant #reality #strategy #business

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment. ↗

— Tom Rath

#decision-making #business

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more. ↗

— Tom Rath

#strengths #business

The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#humour #sherlock-holmes-watson #business