How often do you value the ordinary?
“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."
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Michael Edmondson
Nov 28, 2019
How would you describe your potential?
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
Michael Edmondson
Nov 24, 2019
How often do you express gratitude?
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
Michael Edmondson
Nov 23, 2019
How often are you honest with yourself?
“There wasn’t anything noble about it. I had a lousy year. I didn’t deserve the money.”
Michael Edmondson
Nov 8, 2019
How often do you deal with reality?
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
Michael Edmondson
Nov 7, 2019
What lessons has difficulty taught you?
"The lesson I can draw is that people can always learn, come through tough times and persevere and grow.”
Michael Edmondson
Oct 30, 2019
How often do you go along not bothering?
“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 28, 2019
How often do you re-define your destiny?
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny."
Michael Edmondson
Oct 27, 2019
Do you demonstrate aggression against yourself?
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the cou
Michael Edmondson
Oct 20, 2019
What is your deepest fear?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
Michael Edmondson
Oct 19, 2019
Do you enjoy quiet contemplation?
"To take refuge in a capacity to be moved by beauty-a capacity to take joy in the quiet contemplation of delicate thoughts, sights, sou
Michael Edmondson
Oct 17, 2019
Do you trust your mind?
He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 16, 2019
Do you allow yourself to be terrible?
The author, Garber wrote, “gave himself the freedom to be terrible for four weeks—and now he has a Nobel Prize to show for it.”
Michael Edmondson
Oct 10, 2019
Do you alter your character?
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 7, 2019
Do you work on your creativity?
"By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
Michael Edmondson
Sep 30, 2019
Do you live out loud?
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
Michael Edmondson
Sep 24, 2019
Do you multiply opportunities?
As the old adage goes “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Michael Edmondson
Sep 22, 2019
Do you live like a superb meteor or a sleep planet?
London noted “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Michael Edmondson
Sep 21, 2019
Do you follow your intense obsessions mercilessly?
"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your
Michael Edmondson
Sep 9, 2019
Do you remind yourself to never quit?
"So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.”
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