A quotation from Molly Ivins

It’s a damn sight simpler to criticize other people’s ideas than it is to set forth your own. One is never in so much danger of making an ass of one’s self as when one is engaged in saying, “This I believe …”

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review

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A quotation from Chamfort

He who tries to make his happiness depend too much on his reason, who holds it up for examination, who quibbles, as it were, with his delights, and admits no indelicate pleasures, ends by having none at all. He is a man who cards the wool of his mattress until nothing is left, and he ends by sleeping on the boards.
 
[Celui qui veut trop faire dépendre son bonheur de sa raison, qui le soumet à l’examen, qui chicane, pour ainsi dire, ses jouissances, et n’admet que des plaisirs délicats, finit par n’en plus avoir. C’est un homme qui, à force de faire carder son matelas, le voit diminuer, et finit par coucher sur la dure.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 179 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]

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Regardless of your preferences, if you think your preferred political party can do no wrong, and its competitors can do no good. Then you're deeply mistaken.

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Now that the December holidays are over, time to put the decorations back into their protective wrapping and boxes until next year. But hopefully the love, caring, giving, and celebrating of life will continue on.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/it-is-a-gay-life-some-grateful-realizations-790cb28e0550?sk=107de51d41bb7b6fb4785b95a7f01a87

#LGBTQ #SelfAnalysis #Change #Acceptance

"The person self-cast into a #drama is resigned to being a character, insentient to Joan Didion’s fundamental law of having character: “#Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which #selfrespect springs.” Wherever there is drama, there is a deficiency of self-respect and too shallow a well of self-knowledge."
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/23/iris-murdoch-the-sea-the-sea/

Please choose one of the below-listed emojis: Today, I am feeling:

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Do you think you're self-aware? 😉

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Me working on myself #SelfAnalysis #SelfGrowth #PersonalGrowth

I wish I had better communication skills. Work wise I do well, but socially I have no close friends, I don't text daily, I don't have deep conversations, and it makes me feel utterly alone. Aggravated that I just don't get it. It's a wonder I'm married.
#loneliness #neurodivergent #SelfAnalysis #void

Had a couple of conversations with recruiters about why I don't want to be a 'people leader' again and I can summarise it simply:
I like coding too much
To be a people manager I can only do it if *I* am not contributing production code. Otherwise I get too deep and can't do the people management stuff (where I'm less comfortable anyway so will avoid). #selfanalysis

வீட்டுச் சிறை என்பது இது தானோ? கதவுகள் திறந்ததும் சிறகு விரித்துப் பறந்திட ஆவலோடுக் காத்துக் கிடக்கிறேன்.
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விடுதலை (சுதந்திரம்) - அதன் முழுப் பொருளை இன்று தான் உணர்கிறேன். கூட்டுக்குள் அடைபட்டப் பறவையின் வலி, அதனை முழுதாய் உணர்கிறேன்.
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எனில், கட்டற்றுக் கிடந்தோர், மகிழ்ச்சியாகச் சுற்றித் திரிந்தோரின் நிலையை என்னால் நினைத்துக் கூடப் பார்க்க முடியவில்லை
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அப்படிப் பட்ட என்னாலேயே இந்த lockdown தாங்க முடியவில்லை. பித்துப் பிடிப்பது போல இருக்கிறது.
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வழக்கமாக வெளியே சுற்றுவதில் பெரிய ஆர்வமற்றவன் நான். வீட்டில் தங்கிக் கிடப்பதை விரும்புபவன்
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வீட்டிலேயே அடைஞ்சிக் கிடக்குறது ஒரு மாதிரியான மனச் சோர்வு / குழப்பத்தை உண்டு பண்ணுது.
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One need to master this art of communication in-order to move to next level.
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Wen d student learns tat the tutor is inefficient, implicitly they don't hav respect for the tutor & ends up not focusing on the lessons
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Is this a prob related to not able to retain ur focus beyond certain mins?
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Eventhough I wanna keep a low profile, sometimes I lapse & I end up attracting more trouble. கடவுளே காப்பாத்து... 😑
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