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• The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Sky, Grace

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• You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

  James Sinegal

  Long, Term, Long Term

  "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  Umar

  Past, Guilt, Amount

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• Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

  Rumi

  Fire, World, Sparks

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• We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

  David Leavitt

  Past, Hands, Anticipation

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Mean, Badges, Simplify

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• Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

  Randy Alcorn

  Self, Suffering, Atheism

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• Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

  Peter McWilliams

  Debt, May, Interest

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

  Linus Torvalds

  Data, Structure, Programming

  Message to Git Mailing List, lwn.net. July 27, 2006.

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• It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Sides, Ends

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• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Want, Today, Computer

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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• To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Men, Poor Decisions, Understanding

  A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.139, Macmillan

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• The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

  Alex Witchel

  Moving, Fall, Feeling Sad

  "The Spare Wife". Book by Alex Witchel, February 5, 2008.

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• Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Energy, Waste

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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• The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Art, Giving

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Thinking, Different, Realization

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• Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

  Guy Finley

  Needs, May, Way

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 13, 2014

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• The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Expectations, Terrible

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Taught Us, Self, Regulation

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nation–not the advertised one–and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, there’s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just don’t care enough

  John Kuhn

  Teacher, Real, Fighting

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• Don't worry about your platform; focus on your impact.

  Tony Dungy

  Impact, Focus, Platforms

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.101, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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• Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

  Dorothy Parker

  Husband, Divorce, Land

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• Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Prayer, Fall

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.

  Sivananda

  Motivational, Goodbye, Powerful

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