"Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything."

-- David Simon

#Mean Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them â€” I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them â€” the point is that I know a good person when I see one.”
“So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean itâ€™s actually you thatâ€™s time-shifted?”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd
“You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.”
“When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.”
“While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.”
“There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.”
“I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.”

Source : Song: Some L.A. Niggaz, Album: 2001
“Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.”

Source : James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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