The Kingdom of Calm Blog
A Constant stream of gibberish updated while you were sleeping and I was not
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Quote reblogged from Nine ThoughtsIf you keep refining your question, you’ll eventually get your answer without asking.(via ninethoughts)
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Link reblogged from Frank Chimero’s Tumble
Can we inspire more kids to pursue space-related science and research? If so, how?
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. The beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That’s why my public focus is primarily adults.
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Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
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Only you know how to hit yourself where it hurts most.
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Homophily (i.e., “love of the same”) is the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others.
Status homophily means that individuals with similar social status characteristics are more likely to associate with each other than by chance.
By contrast, value homophily refers to a tendency to associate with others who think in similar ways, regardless of differences in status.
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As soon as you stick a label on something, it’s political.
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Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.
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Quote reblogged from Not A Starving ArtistThe brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!Randy Pausch (via notastarvinartist)
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begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
