{"id":1686,"date":"2025-10-24T06:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:03:46","slug":"lunch-box-quotes-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Box Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Dealing with disappointment is tough. Number 4 didn&#8217;t make the cheerleading team and was appropriately heartbroken. No one wants to see their baby hurt. That was tough. I said all of the dad-type stuff: they are missing out, get &#8217;em next time, use this as motivation, when one door closes another will open, etc.. I don&#8217;t think any of it worked, and I just held her. On a lighter note, it&#8217;s opening day of duck season, so Number 2 walked all over the house with his chest waders on. The traces from the final hunt of last year are more than memory today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A couple of weeks ago, while sending 2 and 3 out the door, Number 2 asked why I haven\u2019t been writing notes to put in their lunches this year. Last year, on the days I\u2019m not traveling for work, I got up early, made the kids their lunches, and put a note in each one\u2019s lunch box. Their mom started it. She would write something sweet\u2026mom-type stuff. That is not really my thing, so I would look for cool quotes that seemed to fit the day or something they were going through. For 2, 3, and 4, it\u2019s a note on a napkin. For Number 1, it\u2019s a text.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Quotes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1. <em>&#8220;It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2.&nbsp; <em>&#8220;A man has to be what he is.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Shane<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3. <em>&#8220;A cat that dreams of becoming a lion must lose its appetite for rats.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; African Proverb<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4. <em>&#8220;Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sources:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fyodor Dostoevsky <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lWxD5ZFfvK\">pic.twitter.com\/lWxD5ZFfvK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muse (@xmuse_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xmuse_\/status\/1981017762568065463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">(This was a comment in a long Twitter thread on Dostoevsky that I linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1684\">yesterday<\/a>. It is very good, highly recommend.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A man has to be what he is<br \/>\n\u23e4Shane <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4yWOGj1bbx\">pic.twitter.com\/4yWOGj1bbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cowboy Gospeler (@CowboyGospeler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CowboyGospeler\/status\/1981259888245526816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">12. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1oX4keEpKQ\">pic.twitter.com\/1oX4keEpKQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wisdom (@Wisdom_HQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wisdom_HQ\/status\/1976820335262732458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;Number 4 &#8211; I Googled &#8220;quote for failing a test&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with disappointment is tough. Number 4 didn&#8217;t make the cheerleading team and was appropriately heartbroken. No one wants to see their baby hurt. That was tough. I said all of the dad-type stuff: they are missing out, get &#8217;em next time, use this as motivation, when one door closes another will open, etc.. 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