Printre cele mai bune cadouri se numără, desigur, o carte bună. E cadoul perfect, mai ales atunci când vrei să-i comunici ceva unui om, dar nu găsești cuvintele potrivite.
În cartea “The last lecture”, scrisă de Randy Pausch, am găsit fraze care m-au pus pe gânduri, fraze cărora le-am dat dreptate și, desigur, lecții de urmat, printre care:
If you can dream it, you can do it. (Walt Disney)
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Sometimes… We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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– How many men are on the football field at a time?
– 11 on a team. So that makes 22.
– And how many people are touching the football at any given time?
– One of them.
– Right! So we’re going to work on what those other 21 guys are doing.
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When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
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The brick walls are there for a reason. There’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
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Not everything needs to be fixed.
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Time must be explicitly managed, like money.
You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.
Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? (yep, THE question!)
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Give yourself permission to dream.
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Don’t complain, just work harder. Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I’ve always believed that if you took 1/10 the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out.
Treat the disease, not the symptom.
Don’t obsess over what people think.
Look for the best in everybody. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.
Watch what they do, not what they say. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple, Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
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Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. I think that thank-you notes are best done the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.
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Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be ‘tell the truth’. If I got three more words, I’d add: ‘all the time’.
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About being great at what you do: (of course, strive for more, but…) No job is beneath you. ‘You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here’s what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.’ […] Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would paint for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed for them. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.
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