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Grateful, grounded, and ready to keep building.”. 28all. Eya. *AON, LL* The Warm-Up: “Your luck is a lagging indicator of your standards for yourself; respect yourself long enough and things will somehow click and work out.” ~Orange Book The Core: “Most people are only as needy as their unmet needs.” ~Amir Levine, Attached “Fear has excellent manners. It will sit there and let you call it patience.” ~Justin Owens “It’s very strange. I can feel all this inside me, and to you it’s just words.” ~David Foster Wallace “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.” ~Alan Watts “The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” ~Oscar Wilde “I have always been haunted by the feeling that I understand more than others, yet cannot make them understand.” ~Franz Kafka “Sis, don’t chase. What’s for you will not require auditions, emotional gymnastics, or spiritual warfare marathons. Peace. Be still. What aligns will match your peace and enhance your peace.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “If you want people to take you seriously, aim to speak with such articulation that you convey in single sentences what takes people paragraphs to do so. The more clearly you can compress a complicated idea without losing its brevity, the more authority, control and respect people will attribute to you.” ~@UnmodernmanBot “You cannot reach the palace without surviving the pit. Stop crying over the people who turned their backs on you. That betrayal was the exact push you needed to walk into your destiny. Every Judas is a mandatory stepping stone. They might try to discredit you and ruin your reputation, but God is using their mess to set you up for a massive promotion. Do not take it personally.” ~Aba Mensima Eshun “I can’t even party while a [lil playa] pursuin’ this / Distractions will do you in, in the truest sense / Especially people that want to lecture me / And frame it like they just want the best for me / Or they check for me, whatever splits it up / there’s more for them and there’s less for me / They don’t know they got to be faster than me to get to me. No one’s done it successfully…” ~Drake, Do Not Disturb “The headline assault us each morning, telling stories of division and selfishness, of anger and hate. Yet there is a too-often unseen and unspoken ruth about America—one that gives, one that shares, one that embodies what I refer to as tangible hope. How else do you explain the hundreds of billions of dollars in charitable giving by Americans each year? Or that one in four American adults volunteers each year? Or the estimated 6.8million Americans who donate blood?” ~Kenneth Chenault, Equal To The Task “A traditional investing financial mindset gets applied too early. And very often, for example, I talk to a junior investor and they’re like, oh, the quality of revenue’s bad. I’m like, homie, we didn’t even know how to monetize the internet. Business models always lag disruptive technologies. If you truly believe you’re investing in a disruptive technology, if that’s what you truly believe in — A, you should believe it creates TAM. So why would you worry about market size? Because it’s creating market size. And B, it’s disruptive. So we dont even know what the pricing model is. Remember how long it took for us to go from perpetual to recurring? Years of hand-wringing, et cetera…” ~Martin Casado, The Productive Investor on Invest Like the Best w/Patrick O’Shaughnessy Last Set: “A private person won’t come out and say, I am a private person, oooh. They won’t wear it like a badge of honor. But one thing is sure, you’ll see it in their character, in the way they keep things to themselves and their inner circle. You wouldn’t smell anything about them if you’re an outsider. Even social media will barely see anything about them. They’ll have this unique mysteriousness. That's how a private person behaves, just so you know.” ~Okadike Onyeisi Food For Thought: “People don’t struggle to become who they want to be and live the life they want to live, they struggle to be honest with themselves; it’s so much easier to blame a system than learning how to play better, it’s so much easier to blame your teachers than figuring out how you learn best and start walking that path alone, it’s so much easier to blame the food industry than taking responsibility for what you put in your mouth, it’s so much easier to blame your parents, your government, capitalism, than to pick yourself up and take responsibility for your current life; at the end of the day, there are quite a few common traits between all the people who started at the bottom and ended up wealthy and successful, it’s the courage to be honest with themselves and face the painful reality, it’s the intelligence to not victimize themselves regardless of how unfair and hopeless things seemingly are, and it's the childlike optimism and unwavering self-belief that they can learn anything and that they are actually just getting started.” ~Orange Book
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