Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 31 " We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ― Will Durant  (often attributed to Aristotle ) Source:  THE ART OF "QUOTEMANSHIP" AND "MISQUOTEMANSHIP"

Quote of the Week 30 " Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer." ― Randy Pausch , The Last Lecture   Related : "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Not triggered by Crowdstrike but applicable. Triggered by Stefan Schruff's LinkedIn post referencing Pausch's Last Lecture  in 2007: Full quote : " Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. "

Quote of the Week 29 " That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." ― Steve Jobs  [ BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998 ]   Triggered  by  Founders podcast :  #349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple , 05/04/2024.  See also: " Simplicity // Einfachheit ". Related: Quote of the Week 11, 2021 .

Quote of the Week 28 " I've learned that what we want is seldom what we need, and what we need is almost never what we want." ―  James Norbury    Source:  " The Cat Who Taught Zen ",  James Norbury ,  2023 See also:     " We Are Our Own Companion " Related:  " Fix You " (Coldplay) Lyrics "When you get what you want, but not what you need." Related: " You Can't Always Get What You Want " (The Rolling Stones) Lyrics [h/t IZ] “No, you can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you'll find You get what you need”

Quote of the Week 27 " To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own." ― Jack Kornfield   Everything has an end, and that which we call a pudding has two . Let's see what comes next. To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own. https://t.co/3t5xcHLCZ6 — Jack Kornfield (@JackKornfield) December 30, 2020 And here's a great song for those that can't let go .