"My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it."

-- Michelle Singletary

#Careers Quotes #Advice Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.”
“No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.”
“I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.”
“I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.”
“When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.”

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“Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail.”
“I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.”
“The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.”

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