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[Quote No.73073] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] When you fall in love with the process rather than [just] the outcome, you don’t have to wait to be happy!" - Shane Parrish

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[Quote No.73296] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. " - Kahlil Gibran
(1883 - 1931), Gibran Khalil Gibran, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.
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[Quote No.73299] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] I felt it calling to me, inviting me to experience a frequency I had not yet known. I was consumed with a sense that each of us knows ...our own lock and the key to turn it. I wondered what I would find, what my contribution might be, and what I might add to the infinite pool above. ...I had chosen my own path, gave my evolving self to art, and decided to prepare myself for the life of an artist pledging to be steadfast no matter the consequences ...I felt chiefly a worker and believed our struggle a privilege. " - Patti Smith
(1946 - ), Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. Quote from her moving memoir, ‘Bread of Angels’.
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[Quote No.73305] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] Philosophers, which literally means lovers of wisdom, throughout history and in every place, like us all - but perhaps with greater earnestness, intensity and persistence - than many, have sought and still seek after the eternal human values:– the true [epistemology]; the good [ethics and theology and theodicy] and; the beautiful [aesthetics]." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.73380] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Wayne Dyer

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[Quote No.73496] Need Area: Work > General
"[Life-skills, wisdom - from more than two thousand years ago:] The Delphic maxims are a set of 150 moral precepts that were inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi from as early as the 5th century BC - if not earlier, as at least the first three were mentioned being there by the philosopher Plato in at least six of his dialogues. While all the maxims were located on or near the temple, their exact locations is uncertain; they are variously stated to have been on the wall of the pronaos (forecourt), on a column, on a doorpost, on the temple front, or on the propylaea (gateway).

The three best known maxims of the 150 – ‘Know thyself’, ‘Nothing in excess’, and ‘Give a pledge and trouble is at hand’– were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and, while there were suggestions they were first spoken by the Delphic oracle, and therefore represented the wisdom of the god Apollo, they are likely to have been popular proverbs from that time or earlier which gained a new significance from their prominent position on the temple. Regardless, they were traditionally said to have been authored by the Seven Sages of Greece, a legendary group of philosophers and statesmen who flourished in the 6th century BC. The first known reference to the Seven Sages is in Plato’s ‘Protagoras’, where they are said to have collectively authored the first two maxims ‘Know thyself’, ‘Nothing too much’.

The names of the sages are given by Plato as Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Cleobulus, Myson and Chilon; but in the works of later writers, some of these names are dropped and others added in their place. Each of the maxims was often attributed to a particular sage, and some authors, such as Demetrius of Phalerum, assigned additional sayings to the four remaining sages. There was no general agreement over which maxim belonged to which sage, but ‘Know thyself’ was most commonly attributed to Chilon, although, Clearchus of Soli, among others, also claimed that Chilon, enquiring of the oracle what was best to be learnt, received the answer ‘Know thyself’, and subsequently adopted the maxim as his own.

THE REMAINING 147 maxims, documented by Stobaeus in the 5th century AD, were also located somewhere in the vicinity of the temple. The antiquity and authenticity of these maxims was once in doubt, but recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed that some of the sayings quoted by Stobaeus were current as early as the 3rd century BC, and that their influence was felt not only in Delphi, and Greece, but throughout the wider Hellenistic world. Although the temple was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the years, the maxims appear to have persisted into the Roman era (1st century AD), at which time, according to Pliny the Elder, they were written in letters of gold.

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-Acquire wealth justly
-Gratify without harming
-Work for what you can own
-Use your skill
-Do not depend on strength
-Govern your expenses
-Associate with your peers
-Honour good men [and women]
-Give a timely counsel
-Praise the good
-Tell when you know
-Speak plainly
-Speak well of everyone
-Fear deceit
-Nothing to excess
-Nothing too much [The maxim has been said to have received its ‘ultimate expression’ in Aristotle’s theory of ethics, according to which every classical virtue occupies a middle place between the two extremes of excess and deficiency. It is uncertain, however, whether the maxim was a direct influence on Aristotle, as it is not explicitly referenced in his ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ (although it does occur twice in another of his works, the ‘Rhetoric’).]

" - The Seven Sages of Greece
The names of the Seven sages are given by Plato as Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Cleobulus, Myson and Chilon.
These Sages lived during the 7th-6th centuries BCE, but precise birth and death dates are mostly unknown or uncertain. Here’s what we have:
1-Thales of Miletus (c. 624-546 BCE) - These dates are relatively well-established. He’s often considered the first Greek philosopher and predicted a solar eclipse in 585 BCE.
2-Pittacus of Mytilene (c. 640-568 BCE) - Approximate dates. He ruled Mytilene on Lesbos as an elected tyrant around 590 BCE for ten years, then voluntarily stepped down.
3-Bias of Priene (6th century BCE) - Very uncertain. Possibly flourished around 570 BCE, but birth and death dates are unknown.
4-Solon of Athens (c. 630-560 BCE) - Fairly reliable dates. He served as archon (chief magistrate) of Athens in 594 BCE and instituted major legal and constitutional reforms.
5-Cleobulus of Lindos (6th century BCE) - Ruled as tyrant of Lindos on Rhodes, but dates are highly uncertain. Possibly c. 600 BCE.
6-Myson of Chenae (6th century BCE) - The most obscure of the seven. Almost nothing reliable is known about his dates or life.
7-Chilon of Sparta (6th century BCE) - Served as an ephor (Spartan magistrate) around 556 BCE, but precise dates are speculative.
The tradition of ‘Seven Sages’ itself was somewhat fluid, with different ancient sources sometimes substituted other figures like Periander or Anacharsis for Myson.
[Please refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic maxims ]
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[Quote No.73708] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - Follow your bliss:] Let yourself be silently drawn to the strange pull of what you really love." - Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, known today simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, Islamic jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic.
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[Quote No.73711] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole

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[Quote No.73715] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - Many people use their imaginations to create art, etc to freely express themselves and their individual identity and authentic thoughts and feelings. Abraham Maslow in his Hierarchy of Needs conceived that people have a need to self-actualise their best selves and even transcend their personal needs to contribute their talents and resources to making the best world as they perceive it for the good of all, in their time and into the future:] Whether we are plumbers, garbage collectors, taxi drivers, or CEOs, we are called by the Great Artist to co-create. [Refer Karma yoga which is a form of Hindu devotion that comprises serving others for the good of all.]" - Makoto Fujimura
(1960 - ), American artist. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of the ‘slow art’ movement. He has coined the terms ‘Culture Care’ and ‘Theology of Making’. This is a quote from his book about his aesthetics called ‘Art and Faith: A Theology of Making’.
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[Quote No.73718] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - Many people use their imaginations to create art, etc to freely express themselves and their individual identity and authentic thoughts and feelings. Abraham Maslow in his Hierarchy of Needs conceived that people have a need to self-actualise their best selves and even transcend their personal needs to contribute their talents and resources to making the best world as they perceive it for the good of all, in their time and into the future:] Effective stewardship leads to generative work and a generative culture. We turn wheat into bread - and bread into community. We turn grapes into wine - and wine into occasions for joyful camaraderie, conviviality, conversation, and creativity. We turn minerals into paints - and paints into works that lift the heart or stir the spirit. We turn ideas and experiences into imaginative worlds for sheer enjoyment and to expand the scope of our empathy." - Makoto Fujimura
(1960 - ), American artist. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of the ‘slow art’ movement. He has coined the terms ‘Culture Care’ and ‘Theology of Making’. This is a quote from his book ‘Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life’.
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[Quote No.73737] Need Area: Work > General
"Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it." - Amartya Sen
(1933- ), Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics.
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[Quote No.73742] Need Area: Work > General
"The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy. ...Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means." - Amartya Sen
(1933- ), Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics.
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[Quote No.73745] Need Area: Work > General
"[Politics and socio-economic development:-] The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs... [This quote highlights the author’s philosophy of ‘Human Scale Development’. It argues that development should focus on fulfilling fundamental human needs (subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity, freedom - refer also Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as well as Self-Determination Theory) rather than merely increasing production or consumption - so not merely economic growth. He promoted going beyond just economic metrics - from measuring success simply by GDP or consumption levels, focusing instead on the quality of life and human dignity. He believed fundamental needs are not limited to just physical, material requirements (‘needs of humanity’) but also include psychological, cultural, and spiritual needs. This approach also suggests that development should be sustainable, meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. The quote emphasizes that a truly developed society is one that fosters the well-being of all its members, recognizing the holistic nature of human life.]" - Manfred Max-Neef
(1932-2019), Chilean economist.
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[Quote No.73759] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] If you lived in a world where everyone made the exact same salary, what would you choose to do for work?" - James Clear
Author of the best selling book, Atomic Habits.
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[Quote No.73815] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career - follow your bliss:] If it’s tedious to learn, it isn’t a passion. I don’t think you’re in the right lane." - Bill Gurley
American venture capitalist.
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