Collection of inspiring quotes

[nelsonic]

Once I have the Maslow (CNC machine) nelsonic/learn-cad-cam-cnc#71 setup, I want to make a few quote signs. e.g: https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/making-trail-signage/3700

There are quite a few philosophical quotes contained in a classic poem by Rob Van Winkle https://youtu.be/rog8ou-ZepE which I quite like for the emphasises problem solving skills:

"Alright stop, collaborate and listen"

"Anything less than the best is a felony"

"If there was a problem yo I'll solve it"

[nelsonic]

“Get Curious. Talk to People. Try Stuff.”

Designing your Life nelsonic/nelsonic.github.io#534

[nelsonic]

"What the hell are you waiting for?!"

https://youtu.be/yNPECkESPbU

The only "downside" of this quote/lyric is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bennington#Death 😞

So perhaps worth finding an alternative source ... https://youtu.be/w-Ng5muAAcg ? 🤔

[nelsonic]

“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
~ Dr. Seuss

via: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/learning

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
~ Pele

via: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/learning

[nelsonic]

"Almost all creativity requires purposeful play."
~ Abraham Maslow

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." ~ Maya Angelou

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." ~ Banksy

[nelsonic]

"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." ~ Dick Guindon

https://www.wired.com/2013/01/code-bugs-programming-why-we-need-specs/

https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1043959348664254464

[nelsonic]

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~ Alan Kay

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay

[nelsonic]

“Never Go To a Doctor Whose Office Plants Have Died” ~ Erma Bombeck

Attribution thanks to: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/26/plant-doctor/

[nelsonic]

"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." ~ Amelia Earhart

[nelsonic]

"Invest in yourself, that's the best investment you can possibly make." ~ Warren Buffet

[nelsonic]

“I don’t think you will ever get brilliant investment decisions out of a committee” https://youtu.be/eIvKaEX_9mk 06:51

[nelsonic]

“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.” ~ James Cameron

Of these three sentences my favourite is the first one. I don’t feel that anyone can claim they haven’t had any “luck”. But wholeheartedly agree that “hoping” for something good to happen is a terrible strategy; if you go through life hoping instead of systematically working on making it happen, you are destined for disappointment.

[nelsonic]

"Geniuses are made, not born." ~ László Polgár

http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/geniuses_are_made_not_born

By any measure, Cristano Ronaldo is a "genius" on the football field. ⚽️ He makes plays and scores goals that bewilders other professionals and delights fans. But was he born a "genius"? Did he inherit his skills from ancestors who played football at a world-class level? Was he born into a family of professional athletes and are all his abilities genetic? or did he spend twenty thousand hours practicing when others gave up and got minumum wage jobs...?!

His mother was a cook and his father was a municipal gardener ... not exactly "elite athletes" ...
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo#Early_life

The point is that even though he certainly "showed promise" as a child, he only flourished because he persisted. In fact the odds were stacked against him, as he was born with a heart condition that threatened to end his playing career before it even started!

Where most other people give up after "trying" (half-heartedly for a few days or weeks), Ronaldo continued deliberately practicing for more years than his peers. He focussed all his attention on his core skills. He did not get distracted by other activities until he was wildly successful.

Is this relevant to a "normal" person?

It's easy to dismiss the efforts of a "super star" soccer player as being an "outlier". But the point is that Ronaldo was not born with his skills, he learned them and practiced! And anyone who is a "genius" in their field has had to work really hard at developing their skills. Pick any successful professional in any area of expertise and you will see a minimum of 10 years of deliberate/focussed effort towards a specific goal. 🎯 It's not automatic or over night! Anyone that claims they achieved their success without years of effort is either lying or forgetting the time they invested ... or in some cases "down-playing" their efforts for effect.

If you say/think you have "tried", and "can't do it", think again! Making excuses for why you "can't" do something is exactly that: an excuse!

If you don't want something, that's a different story. Not wanting to invest the time overcome the initial difficulty, be terrible at something and make mistakes for long enough to "get good", is perfectly understandable in a society ruled by instant gratification and chronic impatience. It's no coincidence that all of the the most popular "Apps" on the iOS App Store are centred around passive consumption and instant gratification" ... it's right there in the name "instagram" ...? often abbreviated to just "insta" ... 🙄 see: https://www.businessinsider.com/most-downloaded-iphone-apps-worldwide-tik-tok-q1-2018-5

If you aren't ready to DELETE the time-sucking passive consumption Apps from your phone (Instagram, Messenger, ANY/ALL Games!) so that you can focus on developing core skills, then you have not "tried"; you have given yourself the option of failing. In fact you have automatically destined yourself to fail before you have even started.

Yes, Ronaldo is on of the most "popular" users of Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cristiano But he only joined Instagram (long) after he had won "FIFA World Player of the Year"! And he uses the platform/app as a tool to achieve his goals of self-promotion (his own brand) and all the other brands that pay him millions to push their products!

What goal is Instagram helping you to achieve in your life? ❓ Is Instagram making you a genius? 💡 Or is it systematically making you sad? 😞 http://time.com/4793331/instagram-social-media-mental-health/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/17/instagram-is-supposed-to-be-friendly-so-why-is-it-making-people-so-miserable

[ghost]

"Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by the horns, and persevere amidst setbacks. They take control of their lives, instead of waiting for others to open up doors. In this very important sense, greatness is completely, utterly, made."

[nelsonic]

Always Be Proactive.

“People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.” ~ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The book is available for free on YouTube! e.g: https://youtu.be/3gJBD2e3Xjs

Proactive behaviour involves acting in advance of a future situation, rather than just reacting. It means taking control and making things happen rather than just adjusting to a situation or waiting for something to happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactivity

[nelsonic]

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
~ Samuel Goldwyn

If the name isn't familiar, here's a clue:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/

[nelsonic]

"Nothing will work unless you do." ~ Maya Angelou

[nelsonic]

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.” ~ [Henry]() Ford

There is a little residual attribution uncertainty: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/03/you-can/ But the message is 100% correct.

If you or _anyone else has convinced you that you cannot do something, you need to reset that mindset and give yourself permission to believe.

https://youtu.be/nknzSWDcUgA

[nelsonic]

“Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside.” ~ unknown

[nelsonic]

"Having Money isn't Everything, NOT Having it is!"
~ Kanye

This quote pretty much summarises my view of money/finance. I worked extra hard to get money from age 13 to 28 (at which point I retired from "employment") I "skipped" Christmas 4 times in my 20's to work. Not because I didn't want to spend time with my Family, but because I had been broke when I was 18-19 and I never want to go back there!

If you have never worked in a different country (where you have no family) on Christmas, felt lonely and missed your family, try it, it's character building.

"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was at University, I never had fewer than two jobs. It probably helped that my degree was easy. (someone should probably tell the professors in the Economics/Management/Finance department at Edinburgh University, how easy the program is!) I basically didn't have to study (except for 3 weeks before the final exams ... more on that later) and I only missed out on a "double first" by 1% because the weekend before the coursework deadline, Inês was in a traffic accident and I spent the weekend taking care of her instead of writing my final essay ... 🙄 (no "regrets" ... being with her when she was in pain was way more important than grades!)

"_2:1 is better_" he said nonchalantly not wanting to look like he had "worked too hard" in School.

When I graduated I still worked two jobs for the first year:

1. I worked a "day" job for the One World Shop (Fair Trade) store in Edinburgh where I managed the store, worked on the web site (setup the e-commerce and helped with the transition to e-POS) https://www.oneworldshop.co.uk ... I was paid £750/month for this job. (£12k/year before tax was my first job after graduating) My fellow UofE graduates had all got "graduate jobs" earning more than double this salary. I took the OWS job because I believe in Fair Trade and felt I could both contribute and learn a lot more from the experience than joining the "corporate world".

In many respects I wish I had not taken a "corporate job" with Deloitte. It was soul-destroying and felt like "selling out" ... Deloitte does not work with "startups" or entrepreneurs, their goal is to help big business get bigger, legally avoid taxes or "control risk". Some of this is useful knowledge but I feel I could have used my time in my mid-twenties much more effectively if I had stuck to my plan of writing Accounting/ERP software instead of being a pawn for the Partners of a "Big Four" firm. I could have written "Fresh Books" or Xero. But instead I was kept busy (distracted) working for "big business" ... 😞

Sadly, it OWS only lasted a year and joining sed "corporate world" was inevitable. Inês decided to move to London to work for Accenture (_despite me pleading and attempting to reason with her not to ... because Accenture is an evil company that stole money from the NHS!_) so my choice was to either attempt to maintain a long-distance relationship where one person has a salary more than 3 times higher than the other person and has "corporate friends" who appear to be "achieving" more ... (but in reality are cogs in the corporate machine syphoning money from the tax payers and working class...) or ... find a job in London and move down to be with her. The "third option": "break up" which neither of us wanted ... even though I fundamentally disagreed with her working for "Accent on the Future" ... 🙄
I took the 2^nd option, Hence working for Exploitte.

2. In addition to my (full time + unpaid extra time!) "day job" at One World shop I worked a night job as "night porter", book keeper and website maintainer at the Castle Rock Hostel I was living at https://www.castlerockedinburgh.com Working the night shift from 22:00 - 07:00 was reasonably quiet and meant that I got "free" accommodation in the centre of the city.

For anyone paying attention, this meant I was working 09:50 - 18:00 at the OWS "day job", sleeping for a few hours (19:00 - 21:30) and then doing the night shift, then getting a nap from 07:30 - 09:30 ... so not getting much sleep/rest except on my one "day off" per week. When I caught up on a bit of sleep but then spent the rest of the time batch-cooking for the week and reading. It was all carefully choreographed and I was never "late" to either job. The shop is 6 minutes by Bike from the Hostel (down hill in the mornings): https://goo.gl/maps/KAYh8gjxqo42 I had a "down hill" mountain bike at the time so I took the "short cut" which was 3 minutes 🚵⏱😉 (don't tell my parents ... I'm mean, they know I was an "adrenaline junkie dare devil" as kid - I "free-climbed" 10-story granite faces - ... but this was probably borderline reckless. I did not have the proper protection, just a basic skating helmet - no face protection - and there was plenty that could have gone horribly wrong. I have since learned to take much more calculated approach to all Risk especially personal injury!

My job Title at Deloitte was "Enterprise Risk Consultant" ... I learned everything I could about risk identification, analysis and mitigation. This covered both technology, accounting and investment risk. I hoovered up all the knowledge I could and read voraciously on the topic vastly exceeding the knowledge of my peers.

Even though I never "crashed" my bike, I did fall off and had few "scrapes and bruises". I no longer take any "low-reward" risks whatsoever.

Before this turns into an autobiographical essay ... I will cut it short by saying this: I agree with Kanye. Not having money sucks. It's all you think about when you don't have it and need it to pay bills. I've been there. (no money to pay bills because rent was too high and wages too low) Figure out how to get to the "creative work" as soon as you can. Creative work pays much better and is way more enjoyable than the "minimum wage" dollars-for-hours job where you have nothing to show for your time at the end of the month when all the bills are paid but you feel empty.

[nelsonic]

"Learning Never Exhausts the Mind."
~ Leonardo da Vinci

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13560.Leonardo_da_Vinci

[nelsonic]

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” ~ James Clear, Atomic Habits

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7327369.James_Clear GOTO: nelsonic/nelsonic.github.io#611

[nelsonic]

“Action expresses priorities.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[nelsonic]

"Pain + Reflection = Progress" ~ Ray Dalio

It's really that simple. If you do everything you can to avoid pain, you simply will not learn anything or make any progress. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/bridgewaters-ray-dalio-best-advice-for-new-stock-market-investors.html

[nelsonic]

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_Hemingway

This is another way of saying:

"ignorance is bliss" ~ Cypher, The Matrix

https://youtu.be/l5y68ErffgM

Full Quote from Restaurant scene in act 2:

Cypher: [talking to Agent Smith] "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?" [takes a bite of steak] Cypher: "Ignorance is bliss". ~ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/matrix/quotes

Completely aside, this video on "Why Cypher Did it": https://youtu.be/VdxAx3kYdWs is a good commentary on Cypher's motive for wanting to be reinserted into the Matrix. I occasionally (though increasingly rarely) think I would not mind being "ignorant" because some people who are ignorant to the facts appear to be happier. For example: most people in Europe/America have easy access to Water and sanitation and as a result they do not actively think about the fact that in many countries as many as 50% of the population do not have access to potable water and people have to spend significant portions of their income (20+%) on water. see: https://github.com/dwyl/phase-two/issues/21 While the thought that hundreds of millions of people don't have access to water does not make me "sad" (because I'm a naturally happy person), it does mean that I constantly think: "there is still a lot of work to be done" (to give everyone access to the same living standards that we often take for granted...) and it's selfish to not consider the needs of people less fortunate than ourselves.

ignorance vs. intelligence

Note: I know that ignorance is not the same as "stupidity" (the opposite of intelligence). But a person who is wilfully ignorant is almost certainly someone who does not aspire to intelligence. This is a good summary: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-ignorance-and-stupidity

I have always pursued intelligence and knowledge while others I know chase pleasure. Learning new and useful things makes me considerably happier than my hedonistic peers who have burned through their 20's (and in some cases 30's!!) and have nothing to show for it!

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” ~ Albert Einstein

[nelsonic]

“The future depends on what you do today.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[nelsonic]

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ~ Mark Twain

Attribution uncertain: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/11/cannot-read/

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ~ George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

[nelsonic]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9810.Albert_Einstein

[nelsonic]

"Remember Tomorrow" ~ Jesse Itzler

via https://youtu.be/LUNBfsiJfIA?t=907

When you have a split-second decision to make, think about how it will make you feel tomorrow.

[nelsonic]

Discomfort Is The Price Of Admission To A Meaningful Life

~ Susan David https://youtu.be/8B6e2ca2_qw

[nelsonic]

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” ~ Albert Einstein

The reason I have written so many tutorials/examples is because explaining concepts to others ensures that I understand them myself. https://github.com/dwyl?q=learn

Relevant for: https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-uk-postcode-finder-example/issues/1

[nelsonic]

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/987-there-are-only-two-ways-to-live-your-life-one

Some doubt about origin: https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/debunking-fake-albert-einstein-quotes/ (but read the comments, especially the thread/responses to "Steven K. Sterzer, M.D")

[nelsonic]

"True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature."
~ Robert McKee, Story

via: https://youtu.be/pFUKeD3FJm8?t=179

[nelsonic]

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." ~ William Gibson

[nelsonic]

"Dig The Well Before You're Thirsty" ~ Harvey Mackay

[nelsonic]

A person who does not [actively] do creative work has no advantage over the people who cannot"

This is a variant of Mark Twain's quote: https://github.com/nelsonic/nelsonic.github.io/issues/521#issuecomment-451088965 “A person who does not read has no advantage over the people who cannot read.”

[nelsonic]

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours.
That’s relativity.” ~ Albert Einstein

Quote origin research: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/24/hot-stove (seems legit)

I've always felt this way when spending time with Inês, it feels like time is never "enough". As a teenager I remember getting up at 05:00 on a Sunday, skating to the Metro, riding the Metro + Train for 1.5h to see Inês for a couple of hours and then reversing the journey back Lx to be back by 10:00 "in time" for "meeting" (what most people would call "church"). 3 hours on public transport for what felt like 2 minutes with Inês where we would just walk-and-talk on the seaside walkway in Cascais felt (and 20 years later still feels) like the best use of my time ... 👫❤️

Equally, as a child I "fell" in the fire and sustained 3^rd degree burns on both my hands (if you observe my hands up-close you will see the scars on my knuckles ... it was grim!) which had to be bandaged and remained excruciatingly painful for 5 weeks. The few seconds in the fire felt like an eternity I will never forget. 🔥😞 Not that I'm any less fascinated by allure of fireplaces and BBQs. 🙄

But you get the idea ... This quote has always resonated with me.

[iteles]

You’re the cutest 😍

[nelsonic]

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” ~ Henry Ford

[iteles]

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of how things turn out"

~ John Wooden

[nelsonic]

“Don't mistake activity for achievement.”
~ John Wooden

GOTO: https://github.com/nelsonic/nelsonic.github.io/issues/651

[nelsonic]

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you.
You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
~ Bob Marley

[RobStallion]

"An object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force"

~ Isaac Newton

[iteles]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that" ❤️⚡️

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

[nelsonic]

"The Lottery is a Tax on People Who are Bad at Math."
~ Ambrose Bierce

I agree with this quote but would slightly modify it to: "people who have had inadequate math training". Which is not quite as succinct but is more factual. Everyone is "bad" at math until they are trained and practice it enough. Nobody is born with the innate understanding of probability; it has to be learned and deliberately practiced to "click".

And, sadly, most math teachers "teach to the test" and only care about the "bright" students ... So everyone else get's "left behind" and ends up thinking they are "Bad at Math" ... 😞

This XKCD Comic is a good for highlighting the reason why people are seduced by the Lottery ...

Survivorship Bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Also relevant is observation/expectancy bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect The fact that people "observe" that someone wins the Lottery, they think it "could happen to me too".

We see or hear about people winning a massive lottery payout and all logic and reasoning goes out!

The odds of winning this "Powerball" draw were 1 in 292.2 million. To put this in perspective, you have a one in 2,320,000 chance of being killed by lightning, a one in 3,441,325 chance of dying after coming into contact with a venomous animal or plant, and a one in 10 million chance of being struck by falling airplane parts. Most people would agree the risk of any of these events actually happening to them is pretty slim. See: https://www.investopedia.com/managing-wealth/worth-playing-lottery and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics

The rule people who didn't excel at math in school should be taught is: "Lottery is a scam! Don't Play!!"

"The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons." ~ George Orwell, 1984

The problem I personally have with the Lottery is I played a few times as a kid for fun and won more than I spent so I'm technically "up" on playing the lottery. 🙄 And I once found an abandoned scratch card on the pavement that had a €20 prize that the person who purchased it didn't realise so had crumpled and discarded it ...! ("one man's trash ...") So while I would not dream of wasting my cash/time on buying lottery tickets or scratch cards now (because I understand the "math"...) I still pick up "spent" scratch cards when I see them on the street out of curiosity (which Inês rolls her eyes at) ... I'm not expecting to have a "windfall", I just like reading the odds on the back of the card and the elaborate "games" on them. (designed to "entertain" the people while they waste their cash!)

Also, ask Inês about her Grandparents' experience with the Lottery ... 🤣

By Law, every lottery ticket and scratch card must clearly state the odds of winning on the back: In the case of this UK Monopoly card, the odds are 1 in 3.70 or 0.27 i.e each time you spend £1 you get a 0.27p "return". It's basically a way for "economically" (mathematically) challenged people to stay that way. This shouldn't be legal, but for some reason it still is ... It's a tax on vulnerable people who are sucked/suckerd into the temptation/addiction of playing.

If you are reading this thinking "I don't fully understand the math and I'm still tempted to play ...", I would highly recommend that you watch this very beginner-friendly lecture on the math:

https://youtu.be/kZTKuMBJP7Y

Followed by this TED talk that will change your perspective on the issue: https://youtu.be/ZQElzjCsl9o

And if you see one of your friends or family playing any of these rigged games, calmly explain to them that the average value of the ticket is always lower than the price they paid, and they are way better off buying shares with the money and/or an interesting and practical book on financial management ...

If you live in a region where LastWeekTonight is viewable, then watch this episode: https://youtu.be/9PK-netuhHA

"MrBeast" a ridiculously popular YT channel did a video on this last year where they bought 1k x $30 tickets and lost $9,000 i.e. each time they spent $1 they got 0.70 cents back ... ((30000-9000)/30000) https://youtu.be/wDqJZ_2ZA3A These are actually pretty good Odds for a scratch card! (and still you are throwing cash on a bonfire!) 💰🔥

Obviously, the Ad money "MrBeast" got from this video is for 14 Million views on a 17 min video with 5 Ad breaks easily "covers" his losses for the exercise and he may have done a public service by creating the video (if people actually learn that it doesn't "pay" to play!) 🤔 Don't worry, I didn't watch it for 17 mins, I "scrubbed" it to the end! (who has that kind of time!?)

Seriously, invest your cash in a book to learn a valuable skill! Your return will always be 10x the price!

[RobStallion]

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Stephen R. Covey

[nelsonic]

"It is better to have a bad plan than no plan."
~ Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess

I'm still really tempted by https://www.masterclass.com/classes/garry-kasparov-teaches-chess 🤔

[iteles]

“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles, but by a clear path to lesser goals.”

~ Rober Brault

Never has a truer word been spoken.

[nelsonic]

"Choose your neighbor before your house and your companion before the road." ~ Egyptian Proverb

https://github.com/dwyl/home

[nelsonic]

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." ~ Pelé

Note: while I agree with this quote wholeheartedly, I'm disappointed (though not surprised) by his personal life antics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9#Personal_life Although it's probably worth noting that the age of consent is 14 in Brazil ... 😮 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_Brazil (so legally he did nothing "wrong"...) 🤐

and extra-marital antics ...

I don't mean to cast "shade" on Pelé's incredible achievements as a football player or UNESCO Ambassador (he has done good work to promote sport and physical activity in Brazil), I still like this quote, but just in case anyone else questions it, they must consider if on balance his impact is "net positive"; which I think it is.

[nelsonic]

"When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves."
~ Viktor E. Frankl