Buster Quotes

Inspiration and lessons learned

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The further and deeper we contemplate the future, the greater our capacity to shape it according to our desires

The 50th Law - Robert Greene

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

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The Systems President

Was President Trump’s first attempt at getting a healthcare bill a failure?

Your answer to that question probably depends on whether you are a goals-thinker or a systems-thinker.

If you see the world in terms of goals, you would say the healthcare bill did not get enough votes on the first try, and therefore it is clearly a Trump/Ryan failure. 

But if you see the world in terms of systems, things look a lot better. I talk about the advantages of systems over goals in my book. The quick summary is that a system is something you do on a regular basis that improves your odds of success in a non-specific way. Systems-thinkers choose paths that allow them to come out ahead in the long run even if they appear to be “failing” along the way.

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"We learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer "

William James (1890)

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach

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‎A change of work is the best rest

Sherlock Holmes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sign of Four”

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Speakers and Musicians at the March on Washington

Of all speakers, none was more memorable than Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the program (transcript here).The still photo at the top is from the National Archives, ARC Identifier: 542068.

Part of a week-long series of gifs from The March, the James Blue documentary about the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, restored in 2013 by The National Archives. You can view it online here. 

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MLK

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Peace of mind comes piece by piece

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The enemy is a very good teacher

The Dalai Lama

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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.

Steven Pressfield - The War of Art

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Unless a person is used to changing It's hard to change

Robert Kiyosaki

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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing

Vince Lombardi

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas J. Watson of IBM

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Greatness is always in the moment of the decision

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

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A successful man is built of 1,000 failures

Ray Allen (http://www.theplayerstribune.com/ray-allen-letter-to-my-younger-self/)