"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
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“Never settle for average.”
“Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.”
“Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have an idea or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not gonna have the perseverance to stick it through. I think it's half the battle right there.”
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“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”
“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”