"Donâ€™t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals."

-- Reed Hastings

#Fundamentals Quotes #Crisis Quotes #Distracted Quotes

“All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.”
“Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.”
“If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.”
“I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.”
“The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.”
“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.”

Source : "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".
“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.”
“Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.”

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