"Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing."

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Source : Twitter post from Nov 14, 2014

Alain de Botton

#Knowing Quotes #Exciting Quotes #Fulfilling Quotes

“When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.”
“Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.”
“Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing”
“Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way.”
“The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.”
“There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.”
“When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

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