Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John SteinbeckRead
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
Interpretation
Resisting change leads to bitterness and prevents experiencing joy.
In this quote, John Steinbeck emphasizes the futility of attempting to halt the inevitable flow of life and emotions. By clinging to past losses or resisting change, one not only fails to find joy in new opportunities but also risks becoming consumed by bitterness, thereby missing out on the positive experiences life has to offer.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change in the workplace.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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