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Avicii Lyrics - Addicted To You
"Addicted To You
"Addicted To You" I don't know just how it happened, I let down my guard... Swore I'd never fall in love again But I fell hard. Guess I should have seen it coming, Caught me by surprise... I wasn't looking where I was going, I fell into your eyes. You came into my crazy world…
Mayans M.c. Series 1: 5. Uch / Opossum
Ideals and personal needs
[priest] You are indomitable, Luisa. Your father would be very proud. But do not let that ghost drive you beyond reason. The moment this becomes personal.. is the moment you've lost control. [Luisa] Bullshit. That's the job talking, dear Rodrigo. You know as well as I do, it…
Rdf Primer
A vocabulary is a set of URIrefs
Since RDF uses URIrefs instead of words to name things in statements, RDF refers to a set of URIrefs (particularly a set intended for a specific purpose) as a vocabulary. Often, the URIrefs in such vocabularies are organized so that they can be represented as a set of QNames…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
The circle of concern
We each have a wide range of concerns—our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which we have no particular mental or emotional involvement by creating a “Circle of Concern.”
The circle of influence
As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no real control and others that we can do something about. We could identify those concerns in the latter group by circumscribing them within a smaller…
Proactive people work on what they can change
Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase. Reactive people, on the other hand, focus their…
Focusing on what we couldn't control
As long as we focused our efforts on those things, we accomplished nothing, except to increase our own feelings of inadequacy and helplessness and to reinforce our son’s dependence.
Direct, indirect and no-control problems
The problems we face fall in one of three areas: direct control (problems involving our own behavior); indirect control (problems involving other people’s behavior); or no control (problems we can do nothing about, such as our past or situational realities). The proactive…
Indirect problems need new methods of influence
Indirect control problems are solved by changing our methods of influence.
Smiling at what we cannot change
No control problems involve taking the responsibility to change the line on the bottom on our face—to
The serenity prayer
In this way, we do not empower these problems to control us. We share in the spirit embodied in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer, “Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the…
Two creations and the circle of influence
To the extent to which we understand the principle of two creations and accept the responsibility for both, we act within and enlarge the borders of our Circle of Influence. To the extent to which we do not operate in harmony with this principle and take charge of the first…
Enemy-centered lives
When someone feels he has been unjustly dealt with by an emotionally or socially significant person, it is very easy for him to become preoccupied with the injustice and make the other person the center of his life. Rather than proactively leading his own life, the…
No longer policemen or hovering supervisors
They were no longer policemen or hovering supervisors.
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Tripping quietly in the woods
into natural beauty. That was my way. I should start tripping on the Heath, I thought, as I finally rose to my feet. I should find a quiet corner of the woods and see what happens if I just sit quietly and don’t try to control things at all.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Living things as hierarchies without central control
All living things, says Feinberg, are nested hierarchies. ‘At the lower levels of an organism are organelles that are combined to produce single cells that are in turn organised to produce tissues, which are then combined to produce organs that are ultimately organised to…
The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards
How dashboards create a sense of control
Most information dashboards use a three-pronged strategy to establish a sense of control: Giving you a clear understanding of things to help establish a feeling of certainty Giving you the resources to predict and plan for the future Helping you complete critical tasks in time…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Toddlers between holding on and letting go
Erikson believed that toddlers struggle to achieve balance between appropriate holding on and letting go. Areas for these struggles include sharing with friends, relationships with parents and primary caregivers, independent toileting, and making choices. Erikson thought that…
True Structure: Zigzag®
Zig Zag data structure
We believe this is the most general data structure, able to replace tables, arrays, spreadsheet and relational database, and intrinsically offering built-in visualizations and hands-on controls. That structure we call zzstructure, or hyperthogonal structure. Like a table it is…