MOTIVATION AND A SLICE OF WISDOM

[braix]

we're all unmotivated but maybe these quotes can make you feel like you want to be productive, if only for a moment
will be updated occasionally until i lose motivation to continue

November 30, 2016 ~ February 24, 2017

Wednesday; November 30, 2016:
"He who moves not forward goes backward."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday; December 1, 2016:
"Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities"
~Stephen Covey

Friday; December 2, 2016
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
~Rabindranath Tagore

Sunday; December 4, 2016
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
~Stephen Covey

Tuesday; December 6, 2016
"Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
~Elbert Green Hubbard

Sunday; February 12, 2017
"Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of these actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together, produce excellence."
~Dan Chambliss

Wednesday; February 15, 2017
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. "
~William James

Friday; February 24, 2017
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
~Bruce Lee

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December 17, 2019 ~ (Present)

17 December 2019 (Tuesday)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
~ Aristotle

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[braix]

Post reserved for editing just in case this thread goes for a long time

[mikey]

Totally ripping on my thread
Not really though just kidding

[Maelstrom]

Am I allowed to make an antithesis thread where we only post depressing posts and videos to restore balance to NSM? I mean, we can't let ourselves get too positive.

[mikey]

Please do that I'd enjoy that thread

[Latios212]

"He who moves not forward goes backward."

What about sideways

[Tobbeh99]

What have I done!!!??? (faceplant) ,nah just kidding, it's kind of fun and good that people are engaged in discussions, projects, activities and other hobbies!

[SlowPokemon]

If you wait until tomorrow to practice, you'll just be figuring out what you could have done today.

[E. Gadd Industries]

What about sideways

What about diagonally


Also,
*sees motivational thread*
Oh hey, that's cool!
*looks at author, sees Braix*
Waiiit...
*Finds NSM shirt design thread*

Shhhh
next year ok

Spoiler

I SMELL A CONTRADICTION!!!

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[braix]

Hey, this is as much for myself as it is for everybody else.
Fake it till you make it, amirite?

[FireArrow]

are you calling me not motivated

[mikey]

Did you fake it till you made it to gold

[braix]

Did you fake it till you made it to gold

Yep, I fake nearly everything.


The day before Friday; December 1, 2016:
"Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities"
~Stephen Covey

[E. Gadd Industries]

^^Apparently that's my new motto

[braix]

Fried day; December 2, 2016
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
~Rabindranath Tagore