Quotes

  • It’s not about being great at any one thing — you just need to be pretty good at an array of useful skills that, when combined, make you truly one of a kind.
    ~ TOMAS PUEYO
  • One must always remember that our perception of reality is not reality itself, but only our best approximation of it.
    ~ Ethan Seigel
  • To start a painting saying that it's just a sketch, or a new piece of software saying that it's just a quick hack. Then you judge your initial results by a lower standard. Once the project is rolling you can sneakily convert it to something more.
    ~ Paul Graham
  • Whatever scares you, go do it.
    ~ Derek Sivers
  • Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
    ~ Richard Feynman
  • As you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you’ll begin to discover the perfection in life itself.
    ~ Richard Carlson
  • I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of them actually happened
    ~ Mark Twain
  • The unexamined life is not worth living
    ~ Socrates
  • Whenever you receive advice, consider its opposite as well. You might be filtering out the advice you need most.
    ~ Ideopunk
  • How you spend every day is how you spend your life.
    ~ Ideopunk
  • Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation.
    ~ Ideopunk
  • The happiest experiences of your life are part of the same thread in which you suffered the most crushing despair.
    ~ Brian Klaas
  • Finish something that you started
    ~ Dr. Julia Gurner
  • If something is outside of your circle of competence, you should simply admit that you don’t know that. Instead of blabbering chauffeur knowledge.
    ~ Rolf Dobbellli
  • Effort and reward have a linear relationship when the action is mindless and simple. Effort and reward have a diminishing returns relationship when the action is complex and multivariate.
    ~ MARK MANSON
  • There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
    ~ Christopher Morley
  • In most games in life, the sum of consistent, ordinary performances adds up to something extraordinary.
    ~ Sahil Bloom
  • If your only objective is to get the right answer, every wrong answer looks like a failure. If your objective is to get closer to the truth, every failure is a success.
    ~ David Elikwu
  • If he was willing to end his life, he had nothing to lose by trying to live in ways he had not yet imagined.
    ~ Taylor Pearson
  • If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.
    ~ Seth Godin
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