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Of Grasshoppers

Doug McCaughan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:42:25 +0000

Student: I am overwhelmed.
Master: Perhaps you do too much at once.

Doug McCaughan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:30:25 +0000

Student: I was very happy until I was told I wasn’t.
Master: With great effort, we climb to heights from which it is so easy to be knocked down.

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:23:59 +0000

Student: Correcting the results of my poor judgments is ridiculously difficult.
Master: Much easier to use good judgment in the first place.

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:11:08 +0000

Student: Look. A bus.
Master: Get out of the street!

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:49:17 +0000

Student: Take it back.
Master: Once a stone is tossed in the pond, only time calms the ripples.

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:31:49 +0000

Student: If I think of all the tasks I must do, I cannot move.
Master: Instead of thinking of all, do one task.

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:35:04 +0000

Student: Spent the night trying to wake up.
Master: Exhausting way to sleep.

Doug McCaughan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:42:13 +0000

Student: Self-doubt.
Master: No doubt.

Doug McCaughan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:15:21 +0000

Student: I have purpose again.
Master: You’ve always had purpose.

Doug McCaughan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:27:17 +0000

Student: What I want to do and need to do are not the same.
Master: Split your attention between each and accomplish neither.

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:44:21 +0000

Student: This is not the path I thought I was walking.
Master: Do you have a map?

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:40:03 +0000

Student: Is this what failure feels like?
Master: Have you quit?

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:45:54 +0000

Student: Can it suck more?
Master: Yes.

Doug McCaughan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:05:18 +0000

Student: Life is weird. Hasn’t turned out at all as I expected.
Master: You had a plan?!

Doug McCaughan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:12:16 +0000

Student: All I can see is the problem.
Master: If you only look at the problem, you will never see the solution.