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- Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
- Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880
- As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
- Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006
- For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
- Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
- A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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