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The brain is a mass cranial nerve tissue, most of it in mint condition.

– Robert Half (from think big)

I got lazy and forgetful. Thus the break from 4 months ago until now.

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Let’s build a future – not just polish the past.

– Frank Vizzare (from think big)

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Getting into trouble is our genius and glory.

– John Pfeiffer (from think big)

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I am always doing things I can’t do – that’s how I get to do them.

– Pablo Picasso (from think big)

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Apologies for having forgotten about my think big quotes for quite some time. Here's one again:

People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end.

– Malcolm Kushner (from think big)

Think Big - Quote; Following

Follow the tugs that come from the heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even I they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going with.

– Victoria Moran

Last night my mother said that I should not have studied Psychology because there is nothing to do in Singapore and that one has to go overseas for further studies to practice it.

Hurt and angry, I indignantly told her that I wanted to study it. She got pissed off with my response. What was I supposed to answer then? Answer with a nod? I'm very stubborn, when I think I'm right, I really think I'm right. When I was younger, I already knew that I wanted to study Psychology. I have no idea how I knew, can't remember when it was either. But the moment I knew there was such a thing, I knew I would be studying that. Choosing which faculty to enter in University thus was never difficult although I came from a science background and my grades allowed entry into faculties with a science-basis.

Veering away a bit, if I told you now that Psychology is really a science, would you believe it? Or would you raise doubts? How can a course studying human behaviour, as varied as it is, be a science? It is because we have theories and models, we have statistics, we conduct experiments, we try to be as "clean" and "science" as possible in analysis. You'd be surprised at how human behaviour can be really standard at times, how things can be explained step-by-step. Yet despite its rigidity, there is flexibility within. At times when it is flexible, it is really flexible. From "error size" in statistics we move to continuums, where mental disorders cannot always be classified, where patients have such varied symptoms, criteria typically set and agreed on are but a gauge and not to be taken word for word.

A talk with senior Alvin left me fairly clear as to what I should do and where I should be headed. I have wasted time and paid little attention to my studies, I realize now how important this is to me. Mine is a specialized field and if I'm studying it, then I might as well go all the way. Wow, the realization sure came late. Right now I don't know what I can achieve, don't know what will happen, don't know how far I can go with my grades. All I know is that I can't stop my studies at Bachelor's or Honours level. I don't know if I can achieve it. Frankly, I doubt my own abilities and I fear that I will never get to further my studies, instead reduced to the same status as everybody else, keeping to a (mostly) 9 to 5 routine with an hour lunch break or so. Have I ever mentioned how I hate the smell on my clothes after coming back from lunch break after work?

Something inside me is telling me this is not the end yet. Ok, let's see how far I can go.

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Fortune favors the bold.

– Terance

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You can do anything – but you can’t do everything.

– David Allen

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

– Ayn Rand

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Flight by machines heavier than air is insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

– Simon Newcomb, 1902

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A possibility was born the day you were born and it will live as long as you live.

– Marcus Solero

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The ability to succinctly express an idea is virtually as important as the idea itself.

– Bernard Baruch

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You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

– Miles Davis

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Status-quo seekers are so busy protecting “what is” that they no longer see “what can be”.

– Unknown

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I never think about why something hasn’t been done already – but why nobody has done it right.

– Marcia Kilgore

Think Big - Quote; Addiction

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

– Simone Weil

It isn't exactly what Simone Weil meant, but there are times when not experiencing somethings are better than when you do because then when you realize how nice they are, you start to want more of it. It's like a black hole of desire. The wait for the next time you can experience that sensation (under acceptable circumstances) can be excruciating, so there is the possibility of turning to obtain it under not so desirable conditions. Sounds like drugs. Yeah, addiction.
Maybe it isn't just addiction.

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We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies?

– Edward Young

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Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world’s problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.

– Marianne Larned

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It’s easy to make a buck, but it’s tough to make a difference.

– Tom Brokaw

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Today’s shocks are tomorrow’s conventions.

– Carolyn Heilbrun