THink
"It's so simple: you spend less than you earn. Invest shrewdly. Avoid toxic people and toxic activities. Try to keep learning all your life. And do a lot of deferred gratification. If you do all those things, you are almost certain to succeed. And if you don't, you'll need a lot of luck. And you don't want to need a lot of luck. You want to go into a game where you're very likely to win without having any unusual luck."
— Charlie munger
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft."
— Anne Lamott
“The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right”
— John Cleese
“Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.”
— Anonymous
“A sign of character is the ability to learn from people you might not like.”
— Anonymous
"The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them."
— Steven Pressfield
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."
— Jim Rohn
"Events that demand a leap of action before we're ready often have the happy effect of boosting us on to the next stage of development in spite of ourselves."
— Gail Sheehy
“Yes, talent matters. I’m not going to stand here and tell you it doesn’t.
But talent has a broad definition.
Most of the time, it’s not about having a gift. It’s about having grit. In tennis, like in life, discipline is also a talent. And so is patience.
Trusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process—loving the process—is a talent. Managing your life, managing yourself.
These can be talents, too. Some people are born with them. Everybody has to work at them.”
— Roger Federer
“The most valuable skill isn't inspiration but the ability to work without it.”
“What you find interesting is a better predictor of success than what you're good at.”
“Curiosity isn't random; it's a compass.”
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
“Problems scream for attention while successes only whisper. We're wired to chase whatever's loudest.
Your biggest opportunity isn't hiding in what's broken; it's hiding in what's working that you've stopped noticing.”
“I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world. A shelf of books is a shelf of many lives and ideas and imaginations which the reader can enjoy whenever he wishes and as often as he wishes. Instead of experiencing just one life, the book-lover can experience hundreds or even thousands of lives.” — Gene Roddenberry
“Practice until you get it right, and you'll need perfect conditions.
Practice until you can't get it wrong, and conditions no longer matter.”
“Don't let your worst moments become your story.
You blow the presentation and spend the drive home scripting perfect comebacks to an audience that's already gone. Your relationship ends and you spend months replaying conversations that can't be changed. All the time spent perfecting the past is stolen from the future that's still waiting.
The past is a teacher, not a judge. Your next move matters more than your last mistake.”
“People respond well to those that are sure of what they want. What people hate most is indecision.”
— Ana Wintour
“You might think 'building a company that's trading bonds, what's so aesthetic about that?' What's aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, approaching the problem, and doing it right it's a beautiful thing to do something right.”
— Jim Simons
“Every choice is a brushstroke. No single stroke creates a masterpiece, but eventually the portrait emerges.”
“Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal.”
“Focus requires subtraction.”
"Restlessness is a sign you've overstayed your welcome with where you are and need to leave by moving toward the person you can be. Our love of stability keeps us where we are. The key is to leave just before you’re ready. If you leave too late, you miss the opportunity."
— F.S.
“What you're taught isn’t always what matters".”
“If you're responding to the facts in front of you and not thinking from first principles… the likelihood that you'll make the right strategic decision is almost zero.”
— Bret Taylor
“People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around us day by day than we have the sense or the power to seek and find.”
— Thomas Mitchell
“We go through life thinking everyone else has it better than us until we grow up and realize we’re all in our own tiny boats of self-doubt and second-guessing.”
— Alexi Pappas
“If in 10 minutes you cannot understand what’s going on, it means the person on the other end doesn’t understand what’s going on and there isn’t anything to understand.”
— Garry Tan
“The measure of a person is the congruence between their words and actions, their kindness, their confidence, and their decisiveness about who they are in the world and who they intend to remain.”
— Peter Cundill
“Life comes down to two things:
1. Knowing how to get what you want
2. Knowing what’s worth wanting”
“Often times, the ones that are successful loved what they did so they could persevere when it got really tough.”
— Steve Jobs
“In quietness are all things answered.”
— Helen Schucman
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
— Edward Gibbon
“Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.”
“The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful.
Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace?
Everything that fails both tests is noise.”
“The day I decided that my life was magical, there was suddenly magic all around me.”
— Marabeth Quin
“You become what you scroll. Choose accordingly.”
'“The greatest business failures often come not from playing the game poorly, but from continuing to excel at things that no longer matter.”
“Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can take out of it.”
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
—Schopenhauer
“The walls you put up to protect yourself work to imprison you.”
“A crowded mind leaves no space for a peaceful heart.”
— Christine Evangelou
“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 want to understand someone doing something that doesn’t make sense to you, ask yourself what the world would have to look like for those actions to make sense. Change your perspective to change what you see.”
— Anonymous
“The older I get, the more I realize how valuable it is to let go of the anchors holding you back. When someone makes a mistake, forgive them. When someone wrongs you, move on. When someone slights you, let it go. When someone tells you they didn’t mean it, believe them. When someone tries to pull you down, let them go. Moving forward helps a lot and doesn’t cost a thing.”
— Anonymous
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”
— E.F. Schumacher
"More is missed by not looking than not knowing."
— Thomas McCrae
""The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”
— Louis Pasteur
“The biggest obstacle to increasing your self-awareness is the tendency to avoid the discomfort that comes from seeing yourself as you really are.”
— Travis Bradberry
“Sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.”
— Colleen Hoover
“Your position determines if you're playing on easy mode or hard more.
Many people unintentionally choose to play on hard mode by not sleeping enough, not eating healthy food, or not investing in their most important relationships.
You can't remove struggle or emotion from life, but you can put yourself in a position where they don't control you.
Consistently doing the simplest things makes the biggest difference.”
— Anonymous