"You’re fucking swimming in everyone else’s moments, likes, and tweets and during these moments of consumption you are coming to believe that their brief interestingness to others makes it somehow relevant to you and worth your time." — Michael Lopp
"Doubt is only useful if it keeps you from making a mistake, otherwise, it's just a distraction." — Dharmesh Shah
"Avoiding sadness is like listening to music with only major chords." — Derek Sivers
"I don't care if the door gaps are straight. When the driver steps on the gas I want him to shit his pants." — Enzo Ferrari
"You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade." — David Ogilvy
"Work. Finish. Publish." — Michael Faraday
"When you make something for someone else, you get glimpses. When you make something for you, you get goosebumps." — Jason Fried
“I just want it more than they do. Every day of the week.” — Walter Payton
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." — Benjamin Disraeli
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young." — Dumbledore
"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." — Leslie Lamport
"Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately." — Eihei Dogen, Enlightenment Unfolds by Kazuaki Tanahashi
"Think Einstein designing refrigerators." — @paulg
Fred Jelinek from 1985 reads “Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up”.
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest people.” — Roald Dahl
"Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it." — André Gide
"Your worst sin is that you’ve destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky via Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment
"Stab in the dark, but stab very fast." — Ben Chestnut
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." — Oscar Wilde
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.” — Unknown
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou
“Stories happen to people who are able to tell them.” — Paul Auster
"Chi ha compagno ha padrone." "He who has a partner has a master." — Italian proverb
“I publish to stop editing.” — Jorge Luis Borges
"A man's face is his autobiography; a woman's face is a work of fiction." — Oscar Wilde
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” — Sir Isaac Newton
"Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your mood and your passions." — Eliud Kipchoge (via Dr Mayank Poddar)
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music is not a sport." — Tal Wilkenfeld
“I love my films, I make them for me, everyone else is invited.” — Quentin Tarantino
“Thought is the enemy of flow.” — Vinnie Colaiuta
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” — Marcus Aurelius
"Everything we do is music." — John Cage
"Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant." — Nick Cave
"Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper." — Leonard Cohen
"Art is never finished. Only abandoned." — Leonardo Da Vinci
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford
“You cannot wish for both strong character and an easy life. The price of each is the other.” — Alex Hormozi
"Paper is more patient than people." — Anne Frank
E. B. White, when asked to join some prestigious commission: “I must decline,” he said, “for secret reasons.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” — John Maxwell
“My Dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover. -Falsely yours” ― Charles Bukowski
“Don’t judge yourself on how you feel. Judge yourself by what you do despite how you feel.” — Alex Hormozi
"The work works on you more than you work on it." — Alex Hormozi
"Never ever tell anyone about your problems. 90% of the people really don't care... The other 10% are glad you have them." — Charlie Munger
"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end." — Warren Buffett
“Success comes down to doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself you’re smarter than you are.” — Neil Strauss
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off.” — Clayton Christensen
"The passive income from a SaaS just requires daily all-day work 🤣 Could you get money every month? You just have to work for it, every month. Kinda like every other job." — Paul Jarvis
"I will not do my best. I will do what is required." — Alex Hormozi
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” — Douglas Adams
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” — Thomas Edison
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you’ll live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” — Frank Crane
"Go toward the pain." — Jordan Gal
"The pain is the pitch." — Alex Hormozi
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” — Salvador Dalí
"Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover." — Charles Bukowski
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha
“Success is having everything you need and doing everything you want. It is not doing everything you need to have everything you want.” — Jacob Lund Fisker
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” — Voltaire
“When you're lacking motivation, remind yourself: discipline now, freedom later. The labor will pass, and the rewards will last.” — Ryan Holiday
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.” — Charles Darwin's dad to teenage Charles
“Success is doing the things you want to have done.” — Brandon Sanderson
“Consultants have a recipe. Masters have a cookbook.” — Keith Cunningham
"Nothing to it, but to do it." - https://twitter.com/ErwanLeCorre/status/1663179843041923074
“If you don't like where you are, change it. You're not a tree.” — Jim Rohn
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time." — Leonard Bernstein
“all [geniuses] had that diligent seriousness of a craftsman, learning first to form the parts perfectly before daring to make a great whole. They took time for it, because they had more pleasure in making well something little or less important, than in the effect of a dazzling whole. For example, it is easy to prescribe how to become a good short story writer, but to do it presumes qualities which are habitually overlooked when one says, “I don’t have enough talent.” Let a person make a hundred or more drafts of short stories, none longer than two pages, yet each of a clarity such that each word in it is necessary; let him write down anecdotes each day until he learns how to find their most concise, effective form; let him be inexhaustible in collecting and depicting human types and characters…let him contemplate the motives for human behavior, and disdain no hint of information about them, and be a collector of such things day and night. In this diverse exercise, let some ten years pass: and then what is created in the workshop may also be brought before the public eye.” — Nietzsche on genius
"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us." — Kahlil Gibran
"Language is largely made to show-off, gossip, confuse people, delude them, charm them, seduce them, scare them, and exploit them. And, as a side effect, convey information. Just a side effect, you fools." — @nntaleb
"I call architecture frozen music." — Goethe
“And how anyone can imagine oneself among them I do not know; It was all so unimaginably different And all so long ago.” — Louis MacNeice
“People in the past were not just like us. To pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.” — Mary Renault
“There's lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something's transmitted there. And it's a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what's really important to us.” — Steve Jobs
“Ah, but a man’s reach must exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning
“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” — Bob Marley
"An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often diminishes the painting's aura. When an aura is lost, it is impossible to get back." — Ryuichi Sakamoto
"The industrial revolution made the production of an instrument like [the piano] possible. Several planks of wood - six I think in this case - are overlaid and pressed into shape by tremendous force for six months. Nature is molded into shape. Many tons of force and pressure are applied, making the strings what they are. Matter taken from nature is molded by human industry, by the sum strength of civilization. Nature is forced into shape. Interestingly, the piano requires re-tuning. We humans say, 'It falls out of tune', but that's not exactly accurate - matter is struggling to return to a natural state. The tsunami, in one moment, became a force of restoration. The [tsunami-damaged] piano re-tuned by nature actually sounds good to me now. In short, the piano is tuned by force to please our ears or ideals; it's a condition that feels natural to us humans. But from nature's perspective, it's very unnatural. I think deep inside me somewhere, I have a strong aversion to that." — Ryuichi Sakamoto
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." – Edsger W. Dijkstra
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” — Gustav Mahler
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
"There is no God in heaven There is no hell below So says the great professor Of all there is to know
But I've had the invitation That a sinner can't refuse It's almost like salvation It's almost like the blues” — Leonard Cohen
“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest" — The Fool, King Lear
“Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against . It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.” — Haruki Murakami
“Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.” — Jerry Seinfeld
'Death smiles at us all. All that a man can do is smile back.' — Marcus Aurelius
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” — Frank Zappa
"When I was young and full of folly, I fell in love with melancholy." — E.A. Poe
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach
“Don’t follow your passion, follow your effort.” — Mark Cuban
"I’d rather be a musician than a rock star.” — George Harrison
"Don’t worry Don’t compare Don’t expect too fast Be kind to yourself " — Tomo Fujita
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life.“ — Virginia Woolf
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” — Pablo Picasso
“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.” — Vincent van Gogh
Geoff Hinton quip on what to work on: "Just follow your intuitions and ignore what others say. If your intuitions are any good, you'll be successful. If your intuitions aren't good, you won't be a good researcher anyway."
"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away." — David Viscott
"Life is a journey, not a destination." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud.” — Godard
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." — Pablo Picasso
“The purpose of life is to experience things for which you will later experience nostalgia.” — FedSpeak
“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” — Coco Chanel
“We can live any way we want. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience--even of silence--by choice. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting. A weasel doesn't "attack" anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity. I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly,thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles.” — Annie Dillard https://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/living_like_weasels.htm
“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” — Coco Chanel
“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” — Nelson Mandela
“Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you're not. It makes no sense to say you're not good at it. It's like saying, "I'm not good at being a monk." You are either living as a monk or you're not. We tend to think of the artist's work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.” — Rick Rubin
“A wise man once said money will buy you anything in life that’s totally unimportant.” — Jack Bogle
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”Nelson Mandela 'Nothing is so damaging to good character as idling away time at the games, where vices have a way of creeping in disguised as entertainment. I personally return from the shows more greedy, more ambitious, more luxurious, indeed, more cruel and inhumane.' — Seneca (Letters, 7)
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” — Jerzy Gregorek
“Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years. “ — Japanese proverb
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Vincent van Gogh
"Suppose that what you fear could be trapped and held in Paris.
Then you would have the courage to go everywhere in the world.
All the directions of the compass open to you, except the degrees east or west of true north that lead to Paris.
Still, you wouldn’t dare put your toes smack dab on the city limit line.
You’re not really willing to stand on a mountainside, miles away, and watch the Paris lights come up at night.
Just to be on the safe side, you decide to stay completely out of France.
But then danger seems too close even to those boundaries, and you feel the timid part of you covering the whole globe again.
You need the kind of friend who learns your secret and says,
“See Paris first.”"
—Marsha Truman Cooper
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." — Richard Feynman
“You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” — Zig Ziglar
“It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.” — CHARLIE MUNGER
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.” — Juvenal
"Above all, do not lie to yourself. " — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.” — Winston Churchill
“In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.” — Vincent van Gogh
"Don't be so humble, you are not that great." — Golda Meir
“The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.” — Robert Greene
"Cannibals prefer those who have no spines." — Stanislaw Lem
"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." — Dolly Parton
"I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier." — Henry Rollins
"The smallest works are superior to the cleverest thoughts." — Simon Sarris
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at." — Bruce Lee
“We're only here for a minute, small cogs in a big wheel. You're no big deal; so you get up and do your very best..." — Art Blakey
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II
"I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end." — Samuel Beckett
“The great thing is to gather new vigor in reality.” — Vincent van Gogh
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.” — Ernest Hemingway
“To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.” — Beethoven
“A genius is the one most like himself.” — Thelonious Monk
“You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?” — Thelonious Monk
"Find What You Love and Let It Kill You" — Charles Bukowski
"The Sun's Light when he unfolds it Depends on the organ that beholds it." — William Blake
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
"Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her." — G.K. Chesterton
“Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up.” — Pablo Picasso
“I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I’m not. So, it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.” — Leonard Cohen
“It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone... But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.” — Bob Dylan
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
“The loftier the building, the deeper the foundation must be.” — Thomas Kempis
"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eye. It is the swing of your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters. They have fortitude. They have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis." — Henry Ford
"Everybody knows the music business is run by crooks. At least in the old days, the crooks liked music." — Joni Mitchell
"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny." — Frank Zappa
"The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God." — Will Durant
"Grey my friend is all theory, Green the golden tree of life." — Goethe
“You’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.” — Michel Basquiat
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men and women who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” — Muhammad Ali
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” — Montaigne
“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.” — _why The Lucky Stiff
"If you can’t communicate with people, you can’t make a living." — Rick Beato
“Just because you can explain it, doesn’t mean it’s not a miracle.” — Terry Pratchett
“One plumber is worth ten revolutionaries. One engineer is worth 50 revolutionaries.”
“What an astonishing thing a book is. A flat object made from a tree on which funny dark squiggles are imprinted. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another. Maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, they speak directly to you.” —Carl Sagan
“In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.” — Aristotle
“A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.”
“What, indeed, is the Present Moment? It is an open trap through which the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.” — Camille Flammarion
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.” ― Tim Ferriss
"Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit" — Bobcat Goldthwait
"When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right." — Ward Cunningham
"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." — Howard Stevenson
“Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.” — Savas Dimopoulos
"A different language is a different version of life." — Federico Fellini
"Judge a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." — Goethe
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” — Bill Gates
“Intensity is the price of excellence.” ― Warren Buffett
“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
"It doesn't mean anything. And it doesn't mean anything that it doesn't mean anything." — Werner Erhard
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein
"Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but...they're like a vice grip on creativity. If you're in that grip you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. You must have clarity to create." — David Lynch
"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." — Steve Jobs
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” — MLK
"As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity everything requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects." — John Collison
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." — Niels Bohr
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” — Jean-Michel Basquiat
"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle." — Kurt Vonnegut
“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar... you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.” — Jimi Hendrix
“Learn to spike dopamine from effort itself.” — Andrew Huberman
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." — Dr JOHNSON
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
“What you seek is seeking you.” - Rumi
“If it has more than three chords, it’s jazz.” - Lou Reed
"A genius is the one most like their self." - Thelonious Monk
"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." — Miles Davis
“To be successful you have to be a good musician. To be popular you just have to be fashionable.” - Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple
"The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them, and quit our life of solemn trifles." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Serge Rachmaninov
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Banksy
“Don’t beat yourself up forever. Beat yourself up once then move on.” - Homer Simpson
“In living systems the whole generates the parts. The parts do not exist a priori.” - Joe Norman
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” - Neil Gaiman
"Every man has two lives and the second starts when he realizes he has just one." - Confucius
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” – Jack Benny accepting a Emmy
“Meeting is merely the beginning of separation.” - Japanese proverb
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!” - Ted Turner
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Robert A. Heinlein
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” - Charlie Chaplin
“Utopianism is optimization without constraints.” — N N Taleb
“Not my circus. Not my monkeys.” — Polish proverb
"There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” - Steve Jobs
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” - Frank A. Clark
"Starting a business, but don't know what your mission is? How about: making your life better. Working on the things you enjoy, at the pace you set, from wherever you want, with the people you love, so you can be happy… these are perfectly fine reasons to start something." - Courtland Allen
“To name it is to tame it.”
"communities formed around a rebellion, even if they have a good cause, often have a hard time long term, because they value bravery over competence and are united around resistance rather than a coherent way forward." - Vitalik Buterin
“Modern society multiplies our opportunities. Therefore, modern society also multiplies our opportunity costs, making it costlier and more difficult to commit all of our time and energy to any one thing without feeling some form of remorse or regret.” - Mark Manson
"rewards cause people to lose interest in whatever they were rewarded for doing." - Alfie Kohn
"The secret to successfully building a business is that you have to be prepared to do everything possible without letting the highs or lows change your work ethic and determination. Startups, nft projects, freelancing, whatever business it is, this is what gets you through it all." - Hiten Shah
“Your purpose is where you’re being purposeful.” - Elliott Hulse
"Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong." - Bill Bailey
“Tripped yourself up in the long grass of pointless over-analysis.” - Bill Bailey
"The way to come up with new ideas is not to try explicitly to, but to try to solve problems and simply not discount weird hunches you have in the process." - Paul Graham
“I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.” - Warren Buffett
"Don't be a lazy lard arse." - Mark Baker
"Real learning is difficult because it makes you feel incompetent before you feel competent." - Seth Godin
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
"History teaches us nothing except that something will happen." - Lord Dacre
"It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonise at length and be right too late." - Marilyn Moats Kennedy
“Buying the New York Jets is my ambition. The process of trying is my happiness.” — Garyvee
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.” - WILLIAM BLAKE
“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.” - Peter Drucker
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – G. K. Chesterton
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." - Peter Drucker
"Success is something you attract by the person you become." - Jim Rohn
"There are no solutions, only trade-offs." - Thomas Sowell
"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear." ― Rosa Parks
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” ― Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Whoever pays for the music gets to pick the song.” - Russian saying h/t @garyvee
"You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." Jerry West
“In a casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back.
The longer they play the more they lose.
In the end, we get it all.” — Sam “Ace” Rothstein in Casino
“Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” Michael Jordan
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” Napoleon Hill
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” Vincent Van Gogh
“The king of the press has a throne everywhere.” Alexandre Dumas
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca
"Don't promise, just ship." DHH
"बस कीजिए आकाश में नारे उछालना ये जंग है, इस जंग में ताक़त लगाइए।" Gar Ho Sake by Indian Ocean
“My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.” Ernest Hemingway
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” J.R.R. Tolkien
"People hate advertising until they lose their cat." David Droga
"Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero." - African Proverb
“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds.” nntaleb
“the way to originality is through imitation.” Billy Collins
It’s not a principle until it costs you money. – Bill Bernbach
“While we cannot choose our parents, we can choose whose children we would like to be.” Seneca
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” - Langston Hughes
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“We need to proceed with our eyes wide open, so that we may use technology rather than be used by it.” — Neil Postman
“The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.” - Simon Schama
Ars longa, vita brevis
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne" Geoffrey Chaucer
“In fact, I decided to write a book about Lisp hacking. It's scary to think how little I knew about Lisp hacking when I started writing that book. But there's nothing like writing a book about something to help you learn it.” Paul Graham
"An economist is someone who knows 364 ways of making love, but doesn't know any women" ~ Geoffrey Howe
“It’s safer to comment on our culture than to step into the Rooseveltian ring and attempt to wrestle it into something better.” Cal Newport in Deep Work
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer
“What kills you doesn't make you stronger.” NNT
"When you have offered your libation and have prayed, as is right, hand your comrade the cup of honey wine, so he may pour out his libation, too, for he looks like someone who offers prayers to the immortals.
All men need the gods." The Odyssey by Homer
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” Andrew Carnegie
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” @harukimurakami_
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” Dune
“You pays your money and you takes your choice.” Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn And other sources - https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/magazine/on-language-you-pays-yer-money.html
“Accountability is my Illuminati.” - Gary V
“Whenever you see a man on top of a mountain, you can be sure he didn’t fall there.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” - Epictetus
“We learn who we are in practice, not in theory”
“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.’ - Matilda by Roald Dahl
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” - Khalil Gibran