A file of quotes that bring me joy and inspiration

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." —Joseph Addison
"You gotta learn how to do something wrong before you can do it right." —David Alpert
"Being nice doesn't take much time." —Marie Antons
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." —Louis Armstrong
"In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities." —Janos Arnay
"Forethought spares afterthought." —Amelia Barr
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." —Matsuo Basho
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine." —Roy T. Bennett
"Nobody likes getting up early, but everyone likes having gotten up early." —Stephen Blais
"The only wrong first step is not taking the first step." —Stephen Blais
"A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do." —Arthur Bloch
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." —Robert Brault
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide." —Emily Bronte
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." —Phillips Brooks
"Nobody made a greater mistake than she who did nothing because she could do only a little." —Edmund Burke
“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.” —Christine Caine
"You can't have courage without fear." —Joe Cairns
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." —George Chapman
"I take kindness seriously. I take love seriously. But all the rest, baby, just have fun. And if you follow your heart, dare to be different, and use all the colors in the crayon box, who knows where you'll end up?" —RuPaul Andre Charles
"If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?" —RuPaul Andre Charles
"There are three things that always get me through anything... Number one, get the money upfront. Number two, if they ain't payin' yo' bills, pay them no mind. And finally, don't take life too seriously." —RuPaul Andre Charles
"There are three things that always get me through anything... Number one, get the money upfront. Number two, if they ain't payin' yo' bills, pay them no mind. And finally, don't take life too seriously. I take kindness seriously. I take love seriously. But all the rest, baby, just have fun. And if you follow your heart, dare to be different, and use all the colors in the crayon box, who knows where you'll end up?" —RuPaul Andre Charles
"Be as bold as the first man or woman to eat an oyster." —Shirley Chisholm
"I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing." —Shirley Chisholm
"I've never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do." —Shirley Chisholm
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." —Shirley Chisholm
"Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction." —Shirley Chisholm
"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth." —Shirley Chisholm
"Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty, and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring ture, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free." —Shirley Chisholm
"Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." —Leonard Cohen
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." —Robert Collier
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." —Confucius
"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile." —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"If you believe in yourself, anything is possible." —Miley Cyrus
"Measure twice, cut once." —Lu Daley
"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change... I'm changing the things I cannot accept." —Angela Davis
"In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist." —Angela Davis
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society." —Angela Davis
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." —Angela Davis
"Sharpening the saw is the highest form of knowledge work, especially for technologists." —Ray Deck
"The three keys to get into Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice." —Ray Deck
"Whenever you feel crushed, under pressure, pressed, or in darkness, you're in a powerful place of transformation and transmutation. Trust the process." —Lalah Delia
"Who understands much, forgives much." —Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
"A part of allyship is just listening and acknowledging that something is happening." —Amy Detwiler
"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent." —Dionysius
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." —Peter Drucker
"There is only one proof of ability: action." —Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." —Albert Einstein
"Out of clutter, find simplicity." —Albert Einstein
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." —Albert Einstein
"Our deeds will still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us who we are." —George Eliot
"Always do what you are afraid to do." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Work hard, be nice, stay positive, and have faith that everything will work out." —Avi Flombaum
"Progress is made in the middle." —Harrison Ford
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." —Benjamin Franklin
"Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously." —Betty Friedan
"Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?" —Betty Friedan
"The moment of your greatest failure will be your best souvenir." —Diane von Furstenberg
"Where there is love, there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi
"See a need, fill a need!" —Roger Gentry
"You can't ever solve a problem if you're trying to solve all the problems at once." —Monica Gerard
"Work is love made visible." —Kahlil Gibran
"By seeking and blundering we learn." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Plunge boldly into the thick of life." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wisdom lies only in truth." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don't ask whether you can do something, but how to do it." —Adele Goldberg
"Keep working, do your best, be kind to yourself." —Dr. Alan Gruenberg
"Software development takes time. Why try to do it all in one week?" —Seth Hall
"Don't be afriad to say 'I don't know' or 'I don't understand'—no question is a dumb question." —Margaret H. Hamilton
"It is always great when people take interest in your work." —Margaret H. Hamilton
"Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners." —Margaret H. Hamilton
"Don't learn everything. Learn who the people are who can answer your questions." —Bekah Hawrot Weigel
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." —Ernest Hemingway
"I’m everywhere, but in a healthy way." —Ben Holmes
"At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic—you run against people who can't change their minds." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"I’ve always been more interested in the future than in the past." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"I’ve always objected to doing anything over again if I had already done it once." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one’s superiors; care for one’s crew." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'" —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people." —Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." —Williams James
"Never let your greatest victory go to your head. Never let your greatest defeat go to your heart." —Mama Johnson (Nerando's Mom)
"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." —Michael Jordan
"As long as you learn something today that you didn’t know yesterday, then it's working." —Chris Kakos
"You don't have to be the best; be the best you." —Hiroki Kato
"Everybody has the same amount of time during the day. You can either spend your time or invest your time." –Chip Kelly
"Pay attention, and good things will happen." —Jimmy Krasley
"They say that software is eating the world, well JavaScript is eating software." —Quincy Larson
"A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way." —Hedy Lamarr
"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." —Alphonse de Lamartine
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." —Anne Lamott
"Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one." —Annie Liew
"Courage and clemency are equal virtues." —Mary de la Riviere Manley
"Practice excellence in everything. Be honest and transparent. Keep your word. Work hard every day." —Glen McCallum
"Every application is a collection of code; the code's arrangement is the design." —Sandi Metz
"To finish is to win." —Ann Heilman Murphy
"You are what you do." —Ann Heilman Murphy
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." —James Oppenheim
"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear." —Rosa Parks
"Are you depressed, or are you surrounded by negative people?" —Abbey Perini
"Imperfect self-promotion always beats self-rejection." —Abbey Perini
"The harder you work, the luckier you get." —Gary Player
"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." —Plutarch
"I believe in walking through the doors that are open, and kicking the other ones down." —Billy Porter
"The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty." —Rachel Naomi Remen
"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back." —Ellen Swallow Richards
"One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous." —Ellen Swallow Richards
"The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind." —Ellen Swallow Richards
"You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try." —Ellen Swallow Richards
"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it." —Kim Rohn
"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are." —Theodore Roosevelt
"Either stand tall or sit the fuck down." —The Roots
"Infinitely go against the grain." —The Roots
"The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe." —Bob Ross
"Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults—yet faults tear away the perfection in you." —Mary G. Ross
"Done is better than perfect." —Sheryl Sandberg
"I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change." —Sheryl Sandberg
"I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other." —Sheryl Sandberg
"It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed." —Sheryl Sandberg
"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about." —Sheryl Sandberg
"People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Self-compassion is how we recover." —Sheryl Sandberg
"So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do." —Sheryl Sandberg
"The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results." —Sheryl Sandberg
"The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity." —Sheryl Sandberg
"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change." —Sheryl Sandberg
"We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life." —Sheryl Sandberg
"What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap." —Sheryl Sandberg
"Self-knowledge is your armor, but your community is your castle." —Julia Seidman
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." —Seneca
"There is no great genius without a tincture of madness." —Seneca
"A light heart lives long." —William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit." —William Shakespeare
"This above all: to thine own self be true." —William Shakespeare
"A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things." —John Augustus Shedd
"Take one step and the next gets you where you're going." —Sister
"The truth is always the strongest argument." —Sophocles
"In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon itself." —Laurence Sterne
"A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country’s flag." —Margaret Thatcher
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction." —Margaret Thatcher
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." —Margaret Thatcher
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." —Margaret Thatcher
"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better." —Paul Theroux
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." —Marthe Troly-Curtin
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." —Desmond Tutu
"There aren't 100 courses before CS 101." —Emma Twersky
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." —Lao Tzu
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." —Lao Tzu
"Love truth, but pardon error." —Voltaire
"The good is the enemy of the best." —Voltaire
"All serious daring starts from within." —Eudora Welty
"The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally new development." —Alfred North Whitehead
"Everything in moderation…including moderation." —Oscar Wilde
"If people can't access their hope, they live by their fear." —Joan Williams
"Remember: the documentation, not the code, defines what a module does." —Ken Williams
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." —Oprah Winfrey
"A good leader is also a good follower." —Susan Wong
"I actually ask people when hiring how many failures they've worked on, and I'm actually more likely to hire someone based on how many failures they've experienced. I think it's the best learning system." —Will Wright
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." —William Butler Yeats
"Live every day like ass costs $4 and you got $5." —Henry Zebrowski
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." —African Proverb
"The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target." —Chinese Proverb
"The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." —Chinese Proverb
"One who wants to know is better than one who already knows." —Yiddish Proverb
"The wheel turns round." —Yiddish Proverb
"Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently." —Fortune Cookie
"You need to work hard to be 'lucky.'" —Fortune Cookie
"A woman who walks in purpose doesn't have to chase people or opportunities. Her light causes people and opportunities to pursue her."
"Be fearlessly authentic."
"Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show that you are wiser today."
"Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification."
"Even a good garden has some weeds."
"Even the sea, great as it is, grows calm."
"Every kick in the ass is a step forward."
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
"Fortune favors the brave."
"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable."
"I am a warrior."
"I can choose to respond positively to life."
"I'm not lucky, I deserve this."
"I'm not out of my league, I'm in a league of my own."
"If it's readable, it's good code."
"Instead of trying to show expertise, just try to show learning. It’s okay to be new at something."
"LET'S GET SHIT DONE!"
"No matter what yesterday was like, birds always start the new day with a song."
"Self-help is the best help."
"That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember."
"The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell."
"Trees show us how beautiful it is to let things go."
"We all have problems. The way we solve them is what makes us different."
"What you aren't changing, you're choosing."
"When luck comes your way, take advantage of it!"
"When something goes wrong in your life, just call it a plot twist and move on."
"When the student is ready, the master appears."
"While the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions."
"You is smart. You is kind. You is important."
"You're stronger than you realize."
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change."
"Friends break friends' code." -Dat Me
"Remember to not get lost in the sauce." —Dat Me
"There is no perfection, there's only practice." —Dat Me
"Learn to get comfortable with being uncomfortable." —Dat Me