the courage to change...........

 

Just because you've begun down one path doesn't mean you're committed to it forever, especially if that path turns out to be flawed or impeded.  At that same time, this is not an excuse to be flighty or incessantly noncommittal.  It takes courage to decide to do things differently and to make a change, as well as discipline and awareness to know that the notion of "Oh, but this looks even better" is a temptation that cannot be endlessly indulged either.

-Ryan Holiday

determined...................

 

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

-Zig Ziglar

Observe........................

 

6.  Go to the ant, O Sluggard,  

    Observe her ways and be wise,

7.  Which, having no chief, officer, or ruler,

8.  Prepares her food in the summer,

     And gathers her provision in the harvest.

-The Holy Bible, Proverbs 6:6-8

consistency......................

 

"Never buck the other man's game, Val," Reilly said, "but watch the percentages.  It is not one or two pots that make a poker player, but the consistency with which he plays."

-Louis L'Amour, Reilly's Luck

waiving.............................

 

True forgiveness is waiving the right to ever bring it up again.

-Sebastian Rusk

up for grabs..................

 

A wave of revolutionary change emanating from the human/AI mind is about to crash into the institutions, inaugurating a cycle of demolition and reconfiguration. The experience will feel excruciating, like open-heart surgery without anesthetics. The objective will be in part nihilistic—wrecking the hated hierarchies—and in part utopian—democratizing and rehumanizing the ruling structures. The actual outcome remains in doubt, but we know that the whole of society, as it has functioned during the “long 20th century,” is up for grabs.

-Martin Gurri, as excerpted from here

Hobbes shows some good sense.............

 

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choices...................

 

You don't stop exercising because you get old, you get old because you stop exercising.

-Dr. Kenneth Cooper

Will be reading this book carefully.......

 

Whether you are in your twenties, or your nineties, or anywhere in between, a high-performance brain that is protected from degeneration is your most important possession—especially if it comes with a life-time guarantee.  Until very recently, that has simply not been feasible.  But times have changed—dramatically—and in this book I'll show you how to keep your brain youthful for a very long lifetime.

-Dale E. Bredesen, The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime

Trade......................

 

Time is the broker through which we trade our youth and vitality for experience and wisdom.

-Dale E. Bredesen, The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime