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No dumb questions. Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers. I can't promise to solve all your problems. Tea Tag wisdom - updated 06/13/2016. INTERESTING SNIPPETS. If you don't love something, don't do it. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. Everybody is a genius. We are rich only through what we give... Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Zig Ziglar: 10 Quotes That Can Change Your Life. 100 Best Quotes On Leadership. Best Business Quotes From The Silver Screen - In Photos: Best Business Quotes From Movies.

30 Motivational Quotes For Job Seekers. Top 100 Inspirational Quotes. Einsteinquotesimple.jpg (537×243) Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! What one thinks and believes about oneself is. Wisdom In Few Words. Throughout last couple of years I’ve been collecting my personal favorite quotations from various inspirational people in my Evernote.

Wisdom In Few Words

As a result I got quite a long list of sayings which I personally consider to be one of the smartest, wittiest, daring and positive at the same time. Moscow, 2008. So, I thought why not to share them with you? Assuming I have a lot in common with my readers, you might enjoy them too. If you don’t then you might just skip the post and excuse me for wasting your time. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi“Life isn’t about finding yourself. “Interviews I conducted with more than 70 CEOs and other leaders point to 5 essentials for success — qualities that most of those C.E.O.’s share and look for in people they hire. “Pause now to ask yourself the following question: “Am I dreaming or awake, right now?” You might also like:Thoughts, pictures, music. Commitments/ promises/hope/ plans - Drucker. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and. Leadership.

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Undergraduation

Recently I've had several emails from computer science undergrads asking what to do in college. I might not be the best source of advice, because I was a philosophy major in college. But I took so many CS classes that most CS majors thought I was one. I was certainly a hacker, at least. Hacking What should you do in college to become a good hacker? The way to be good at programming is to work (a) a lot (b) on hard problems. Odds are this project won't be a class assignment. The Top of My Todo List. April 2012 A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying.

The Top of My Todo List

Her list seems plausible. I could see myself—can see myself—making at least 4 of these 5 mistakes. If you had to compress them into a single piece of advice, it might be: don't be a cog. The 5 regrets paint a portrait of post-industrial man, who shrinks himself into a shape that fits his circumstances, then turns dutifully till he stops. The alarming thing is, the mistakes that produce these regrets are all errors of omission. Inspiration and Chai. For many years I worked in palliative care.

Inspiration and Chai

My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. Simple explanations. Www.catb.org/~esr/fortunes/liberty. Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A.

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Heinlein. % "The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... " -- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819. % "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. " -- Thomas Jefferson % Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? -- Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 inaugural address % A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

35 Inspiring Quotes from Albert Einstein « Always Well Within. Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955), the famous theoretical physicist, developed the theory of relativity and is considered the father of modern physics.

35 Inspiring Quotes from Albert Einstein « Always Well Within

The nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer shared his impressions of Einstein by saying, “He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness . . . There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn.” Due to his brilliance Einstein was often called upon to offer opinions on topics beyond the realm of physics; thus the wide range of inspired quotations. “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” “Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.” He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to.