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I don't want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we’ve fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have ...

Poke the Box

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

Poke the Box

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point...

Problem of Increasing Human Energy

I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book — my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me — and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition up...

The Poems of Max Ehrmann

I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

Trying Not to Love You

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

I suppose I could get a job to have something to do, but working when I don't have to work would be like pulling a straight and healthy tooth -- pointless and extremely painful." --David Palmer

The Visions of David Palmer: Recoil

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak ...

The World As I See It

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

Work as a Spiritual Practice: A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job

Ever since I was fired for sleeping on the job I’ve worn a shirt and tie to bed.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm, passion and love. Not professionally or personally. We will not find greatness in our jobs, in our marriages, our children, in our friendships, nor in our spiritual growth without these three key ele...

A Walk with Prudence

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life

Your Dreams Will Not Die