Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Posts tagged "Motivation"
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Morally courageous individuals tend to make the people around them very uncomfortable. They don’t fit in with everybody else’s ideas about the way the world is supposed to work, and still worse, they make them feel insecure about the choices that they themselves have made—or failed to make.
William Deresiewicz
(Source: chronicle.com)
Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. Above all, resist the fear of failure.
William Deresiewicz
(Source: chronicle.com)
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Oscar Wilde
(Source: twitter.com)
The best and most dedicated people are ultimately volunteers, for they have the opportunity to do something else with their lives.
Peter Drucker
