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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 151 (1955)

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Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 151 (1955) - Hoffer, Eric | WIST Quotations

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 23, 2025

A quotation from Molly Ivins

It’s a damn sight simpler to criticize other people’s ideas than it is to set forth your own. One is never in so much danger of making an ass of one’s self as when one is engaged in saying, “This I believe …”

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 7, 2025

A quotation from Chamfort

He who tries to make his happiness depend too much on his reason, who holds it up for examination, who quibbles, as it were, with his delights, and admits no indelicate pleasures, ends by having none at all. He is a man who cards the wool of his mattress until nothing is left, and he ends by sleeping on the boards.

[Celui qui veut trop faire dépendre son bonheur de sa raison, qui le soumet à l’examen, qui chicane, pour ainsi dire, ses jouissances, et n’admet que des plaisirs délicats, finit par n’en plus avoir. C’est un homme qui, à force de faire carder son matelas, le voit diminuer, et finit par coucher sur la dure.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 179 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]

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Prism & Pen Jan 24, 2024

Now that the December holidays are over, time to put the decorations back into their protective wrapping and boxes until next year. But hopefully the love, caring, giving, and celebrating of life will continue on.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/it-is-a-gay-life-some-grateful-realizations-790cb28e0550?sk=107de51d41bb7b6fb4785b95a7f01a87

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It Is A Gay Life, Some Grateful Realizations - Prism & Pen - Medium

Now that the December holidays are over, time to put the decorations back into their protective wrapping and boxes until next year. But hopefully the love, caring, giving, and celebrating of life…

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Ecologia Digital Dec 2, 2023

"The person self-cast into a #drama is resigned to being a character, insentient to Joan Didion’s fundamental law of having character: “#Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which #selfrespect springs.” Wherever there is drama, there is a deficiency of self-respect and too shallow a well of self-knowledge."
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/23/iris-murdoch-the-sea-the-sea/

Iris Murdoch on the Myth of Closure and the Beautiful, Maddening Blind Spots of Our Self-Knowledge

“Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning.&#822…

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C.L. Irwin

Mar 31, 2023

Please choose one of the below-listed emojis: Today, I am feeling:

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🤩

10%

🤣

30%

🤧

30%

👽

30%

Poll ended at Apr 1, 2023 at 8:26pm.

C.L. Irwin

Mar 31, 2023

Do you think you're self-aware? 😉

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Yes.

34.1%

No.

6.8%

Sometimes.

45.5%

I have no idea or haven't thought about it much.

13.6%

Poll ended at Apr 7, 2023 at 5:37pm.

Dale Hirt Feb 1, 2023

Me working on myself #SelfAnalysis #SelfGrowth #PersonalGrowth

David | TheeNerdyDad Dec 25, 2022

I wish I had better communication skills. Work wise I do well, but socially I have no close friends, I don't text daily, I don't have deep conversations, and it makes me feel utterly alone. Aggravated that I just don't get it. It's a wonder I'm married.
#loneliness #neurodivergent #SelfAnalysis #void

Scott Galloway Nov 30, 2022

Had a couple of conversations with recruiters about why I don't want to be a 'people leader' again and I can summarise it simply:
I like coding too much
To be a people manager I can only do it if *I* am not contributing production code. Otherwise I get too deep and can't do the people management stuff (where I'm less comfortable anyway so will avoid). #selfanalysis