#rene

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#hypocrisy #self-awareness #humility

Well, it doesn't sound particularly noble and knightly to say you've rescued the Chief Cook and Librarian, does it? And it has cut down on the number of interruptions. I used to get two or three knights a day, and now there's only about one a week. And the ones who do come are at least smart enough to figure out that I'm still a princess even if the dragons call me Chief Cook ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#cook #dragons #noble

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bullying #confidence #potential #put-downs #quotable

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. ↗

— Joan Didion

#awareness

There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside. ↗

— Anonymous

#self-awareness #v- #self-awareness

Without awareness, we are not truly alive. ↗

— James F.T. Bugental

#self-awareness #self-awareness

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. ↗

— Scott Adams

#before #businesses #capital #cartooning #cartoonist

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. ↗

— Tom Allen

#auto #auto industry #blunt #care #care costs

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#awareness #been #chronic #disease #education

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #entrepreneur #i #started #three