Browsing Quotes With Tag: expectations (4)
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Be like water making its way through cracks.
Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Speaker: Bruce LeeSource: the Simple Guide to a Minimalist LifePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.Speaker: LaoziSource: the Simple Guide to a Minimalist LifePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Speaker: Ralph CharellSource: CareerOnePosted: 12 Oct 2008 at 6:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When I was finally dismissed, one of the assistant coaches came over to reassure me. “Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?”
I could barely muster a “yeah.”
“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!