#na

Jenifer always taught me that starting a job was one thing―—and admirable―—but that following through and completing―—well, that’s where the bravery is. ↗

— Valerie Estess

#motivational

A brick and a blanket can be used as reasons to go on searching, when you’ve found all the obvious applications for the brick and the blanket—and immediately discarded them—but you lost the motivation to keep thinking, and you’ve lost hope that you will discover any new uses for them. Thus the brick and the blanket become symbols for creativity and perseverance. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#literature #science-fiction #motivational

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#motivational

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the 'grey zone' of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher Browning as that foggy universe of mixed motives, conflicting emotions, personal priorities, reluctant choices, opportunism and accomodation, all wedded, when convenient, to self-deception and denial. I thought that by marshalling his research into an overly narrow narrative, painted without nuance in black and white, the author had missed the human complexity and the ordinariness of racism. ↗

— Erna Paris

#free-will #justice #racism #motivational

Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words, Ill-natured though a whore, Her belly is a bag of turds, And her cunt a common shore. ↗

— John Wilmot

#whore #whores #nature

If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary. ↗

— Val Edward Simone

#motivational #death

He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a world from scratch. ↗

— Barbara Klein Moss

#motivational

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing. ↗

— Elizabeth F. Barkley

#engagement #motivation #student #motivational

a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair. ↗

— Richard Sagor

#motivation #promise #support #motivational