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23. "Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” – Bruce Lee. Related: Don't Sweat It! These 101 Best Fitness and Workout Quotes Will Keep You Motivated ... (And Change Your Life) Hard Work ...
For the medieval farmer, work was infinite and life revolved around "task orientation": "the rhythms of life emerge organically from the tasks themselves". [ 1 ] : 20 According to Burkeman, clocks were invented as a way to coordinate the actions of multiple people; people then started treating time as a resource to be used, bought, and sold.
Socrates believed that a life devoid of introspection, self-reflection, and critical thinking is essentially meaningless and lacks value. This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and questioning one's beliefs, actions, and purpose in life. [2]
"Fake it till you make it" (or "Fake it until you make it") is an aphorism that suggests that by imitating confidence, competence, and an optimistic mindset, a person can realize those qualities in their real life and achieve the results they seek. [1] [2] [3] The phrase is first attested some time before 1973. [4]
So, like the rest of us, in our many different ways, I’m making the best of a bad situation. My present wife, Amie, who has been a Buddhist all of her life, once remarked to me that she found enormous consolation in the Buddha’s observation that life is suffering because, as she said, “I realized that it wasn’t something wrong I was doing.
The practical aim of Taleb's book is not to attempt to predict events which are unpredictable, but to build robustness against negative events while still exploiting positive events. Taleb contends that banks and trading firms are very vulnerable to hazardous black swan events and are exposed to unpredictable losses.
The sketch is hilarious, poignant and politically and socially relevant — yet timeless too. Mr. Robinson made me laugh hard and think hard when I was a kid and still does. — Ann Van Haney, 52 ...
The phrase being shown in the script of The Shining "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is an old proverb that means without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring.