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For me it was these.

"A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius"

"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter"

These two quotes really helped get my @** in gear.

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[โ€“] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a very brief summary of my 2 year MBA: business school is the scientific method applied to business.

[โ€“] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How would you describe the scientific method as applied to business?

[โ€“] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

They call it PDSA or PDCA, plan do study/check act. They taught me how to make realistic plans, ways to execute and track the execution, ways and metrics to evaluate success, and then how to modify the plan and try again. This is analogous to hypothesis testing in science.

[โ€“] cousinofjah@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got." - Teddy Roosevelt

"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

"Perfect is the enemy of good." - unknown

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." - Yoda

[โ€“] Bloodyhog@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Two things, actually. "You are fired", and "You are hired". Also, does "I do" count?

[โ€“] thezeesystem@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"being trans isn't a mental illness and it's ok to be yourself"

[โ€“] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

Of course it's an identity you are born with. Whoever says it's one is themselves suffering from mental illness. Probably one of the ones mentioned below by my assistant.

[โ€“] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/npkeecCErQc?si=gYzjaai7eZEoJ5tq

Yellow Parenti. Helped to remove myself from obsession over optics and just do what helps people.

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[โ€“] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Starting listening to podcasts is what has probably made the biggest change in how I see the world. It's difficult to single out any individual thing from there but one worth mentioning would be the realization of no free will. It's quite a different looking world once you realize that things happen because of other things that happened in the past - not because an agent with free will just decided to do so.

[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Gentoo can be easy or hard, depending on how you look at it"

[โ€“] 0_0j@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Now I really need to hear how you look at it...

[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I just assume it's easy with instructions. It's turned out well till now

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[โ€“] Zabok@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

When I was 16 I had my first job at a shitty fast food restaurant, and on the first day my manager told me, "The difference between a good job and a great one is often just a couple minutes "

20 years later It still pops into my head whenever I'm working on a project, or work task, or even just stuff around the house. Usually it's right when I'm about to quit or give up and call it "good enough". And for the most part, I've found it to be true.

[โ€“] chmod777@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

The mind is the athlete.

[โ€“] scott@lem.free.as 1 points 8 months ago

"Lead, follow or get out of the way."

[โ€“] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

If we could understand but a flower it could change our life.

[โ€“] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

My favourite is:

If you're scared to spell out a scary, bad word, find another word to use instead of trying to hide it behind similar characters.

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