In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[ Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
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Steve Maraboli
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
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Steve Maraboli
How would your life be different if… You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day… You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can...
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Steve Maraboli
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Alysha Speer
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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More Quotes By Jerry Pournelle
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
Mr. Prince, would you like to know the most significant event in the history of freedom?"" The American Revolution?""A defensible choice, a close second even, but not mine. I would choose the moment when the Roman plebians required the patricians to write down the twelve...
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[ Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]
We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.
