Let me explain something briefly to boys. Gentlemen, nerd girls are the world’s greatest underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me nerd girls aren’t hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
The Chinese symbol for crisis is comprised of two characters: one indicating “danger,” the other, “opportunity.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake in life you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Chris Guillebeau
Never despise small beginnings, and don’t belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it’s kind of a big deal.
Point taken, sir.
“Instead of searching for inspiration, how about you search out someone to inspire.” – Tony Kim
Jack Lemmon
Failure seldom stops you.
What stops you is the fear of failure.
Alain de Botton
It is really only in the age of the Blackberry that people can get a vivid sense of why monasteries were invented.
Decide Where You Want to Go
Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
Cheshire Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
Alice: “I don’t much care where–”
Cheshire Cat: “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
Binaebi Akah Calkins 