April 2010
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“Ten percent of life is what happens to you, ninety percent of life is how you...”
– Proverb (mr. Rapp)
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Fourteenth law of Joram
Life allows for re-tries.
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Thirteenth law of Joram
Who you are is determined by what you do
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Twelfth law of Joram
Don’t let the people you don’t like know that you don’t like them.
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Eleventh Law of Joram
It is better to vouch for your own way and go in against the crowd than to go with the crowd against your will.
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Tenth law of Joram
Commonly misunderstood: listening is more important than speaking is.
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Tenth law of Joram
Commonly misunderstood: listening is more important than speaking is.
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Ninth law of Joram
It is not in how you do it, it is why you do it.
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Eight law of Joram
Adapt, but only because you want to.
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Seventh law of Joram
I take ful responsibility for every choice that I make.
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Sixth law of Joram
Look at it from the sunny side.
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Fifth law of Joram
Don’t be afraid to fail, it happens to the best of us. Take it as a learning opportunity.
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Fourth law of Joram
Be open to new things, to explore is to gain wisdom.
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Third and a half law of Joram
I do things, because I choose to do it.
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Third Law of Joram
A good attitude is hard to gain, but makes the world a whole lot easier.
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Second law of Joram
Lower your expectations, not your standards.
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on wisdom
The truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name as an illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest who, like socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
- Plato (from “The trials and death of Socrates - Apology”)
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First law of Joram
Be honest to yourself. That also means to others.
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“There’s no better time to be happy than right now.”
“Sometimes the place where you are is exactly where you need to be.”
March 2010
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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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On self-identity
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“If life changed in an instant, would you be ready for it?”
– Life as a house
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On the responsibility of choice
Choosing this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for any of us unless it is a good for all. If, moreover, existence precedes essence and we will to exist at the same time as we fashion our image, that image is valid for all and for our whole era. Our responsibility is thus much...
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on commitment
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
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“When the moon is full and the stars are out, be sure to have your best mood out.”
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on dreams
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
- Woodrow...
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