# Literature notes - Quotes This is where I store the quotes that I find inspiring. %% Begin Waypoint %% - [[‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read]] - [[20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids]] - [[90 percent of success is not getting distracted]] - [[90% of the things you want to get done, will never get done]] - [[A 40-hour time-blocked work week, I estimate, produces the same amount of output as a 60+ hour work week pursued without structure]] - [[A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought]] - [[A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind]] - [[A calm body creates a calm mind]] - [[A calm mind can handle every storm]] - [[A challenge for indie companies, sticking around long enough to prove that you will be sticking around]] - [[A characteristic of every new medium is that its content is always another previous medium]] - [[A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it]] - [[A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism]] - [[A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind]] - [[A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other]] - [[A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves]] - [[A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing]] - [[A disciplined mind brings happiness]] - [[A flexible schedule is real wealth]] - [[A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius]] - [[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to — letting a person be what he really is]] - [[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials]] - [[A goal is just a wish until you build a system to achieve it]] - [[A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at]] - [[A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at]] - [[A good idea or your new skill is sterile unless you don't know how to communicate it]] - [[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving]] - [[A great man is hard on himself. A small man is hard on others]] - [[A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed]] - [[A happy person isn't someone who's happy all the time. It's someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don't lose their innate peace]] - [[A journey a thousand miles starts with a single step]] - [[A landing page is a salesperson who never sleeps]] - [[A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love]] - [[A lot of organizations think automation leads to savings, but the goal of automation is to release the human from the robot and create capacity for thought]] - [[A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. And if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free]] - [[A man is about as big as the things that make him angry]] - [[A man is great not because he hasn't failed. A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him]] - [[A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life]] - [[A mathematical equation and a written sentence have much in common]] - [[A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open]] - [[A mistake repeated more than once is a decision]] - [[A piece of information that is repeated is no longer information. It retains its meaning in the repetition but loses its value as information]] - [[A PKM workflow is a funnel with a wide top and a narrow bottom]] - [[A positive attitude brings much gratitude! Think positive, Be positive, Speak positive and stay positive. Do it every day and do it big]] - [[A problem well-defined is a problem half solved]] - [[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out]] - [[A real relationship is having someone who accepts your past, supports your present, loves you and encourages your future]] - [[A report is a prison for ideas]] - [[A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time]] - [[A second brain is a digital archive of your most valuable memories, ideas, and knowledge to help you do your job, run your business, and manage your life without having to keep every detail in your head]] - [[A sense of universal responsibility has the power to negate adverse traits]] - [[A simple rule dictates my buying, Buffett wrote. Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors]] - [[A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it]] - [[A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables]] - [[A startup with revenue has 100 problems . A startup without revenue just has 1]] - [[A taste of freedom can make you unemployable]] - [[A team is a reflection of a manager. The team will reflect the managers traits at a bigger scale]] - [[A true philosopher is a fighter not a fencer. A fencer has to put on armour and pick up a weapon. A fighter just has to close his fist]] - [[A typical job interview is a conversation between two liars]] - [[A year from now you will wish you had started today]] - [[A year from now, you will wish you had started today]] - [[Accept failure but never stop trying]] - [[Acting virtuously isn’t the easy path; it is the essential path]] - [[Action beats intention every time]] - [[Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world]] - [[AI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't]] - [[Aldous Huxley about ego]] - [[Aldous Huxley about enlightenment]] - [[Aldous Huxley about human islands]] - [[All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up]] - [[All happiness depends on courage and work]] - [[All knowing is personal, and all personal knowing is passionate]] - [[All knowledge is ultimately a matter of faith]] - [[All mastery comes from various types of forced retrieval]] - [[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible]] - [[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since]] - [[All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection]] - [[All self-help boils down to choose long-term over short-term]] - [[All teams have a test and a production environment. Some teams are lucky enough for those environments to be different]] - [[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]] - [[All the benefits in life come from compound interest. Relationships, money, habits. Anything of importance]] - [[All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' is just another way of saying that you can't]] - [[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience]] - [[Allow for quiet victories. Not loud celebrations]] - [[Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you've made. Especially the progress no one else can see]] - [[Always deliver more than expected]] - [[Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut]] - [[Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. Because it's not what the world takes away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left]] - [[Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come]] - [[Always think about who you need to become. It will push you to leave your comfort zone behind, and take a step ahead]] - [[Always try to leave things in a better shape than when you found them]] - [[Amateurs focus on the outcome. Professionals focus on the process]] - [[Amateurs think in absolutes. Professionals think in probabilities]] - [[An abundance on money and time can kill even the best-intentioned product]] - [[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field]] - [[An expert is someone who, over many years, manages to remain confident enough to keep trying and humble enough to keep learning]] - [[An hour before 9 is worth 2 after 5]] - [[An idea is a network]] - [[An improving economy leads to a surge in home purchases, which leads to more construction, which strengthens the economy further, and so on]] - [[An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention]] - [[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools]] - [[An inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots]] - [[An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest]] - [[An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices. Wait or eat it raw]] - [[An overnight success is ten years in the making]] - [[An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence]] - [[Anger is about what happened in the past. Anxiety is about what will happen in the future. The best way to alleviate these issues is to build a habit of operating in the present]] - [[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind]] - [[Anguish is the vertigo of freedom]] - [[Anxiety stems from intellect and creativity]] - [[Any alley cat can stay lean when food is scarce. The trick is to stay lean during the good times]] - [[Any output has to have a reason to exist. That's why we have trash bins and recycling bins. Overconsuming is obviously not okay]] - [[Any person capable of angering you becomes your master]] - [[Any product that needs a manual to work is broken]] - [[Appear as you are, be as you appear]] - [[Appreciate what you have, before it turns into what you had]] - [[Architects aren’t the smartest people in the room. Their primary job is to make everyone else smarter, for example, by getting folks to see more dimensions]] - [[Architecture is about the important stuff. Whatever that may be]] - [[Art is never finished, only abandoned]] - [[Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite. Getting something down]] - [[Art is not what you see, but what you make others see]] - [[Art is taught from a foundation of skill]] - [[Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer]] - [[As a leader, if you lose it everyone loses it]] - [[As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand]] - [[As an entrepreneur, you have to completely unlearn all the things that schools and universities have taught you about failing]] - [[As soon as you present a problem to me, I have some ready-made answer. Those ready-made answers get in the way of clear thinking, and we can’t help but have them]] - [[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live]] - [[As you start to walk on the way, the way appears]] - [[Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow]] - [[Ask yourself. What am I doing every day that's just the result of inertia. Is this habit, action, choice getting me closer to my goals]] - [[Assumption is the enemy of empathy]] - [[At the end of the day, you are a combination of your habits and the people who you spend the most time with]] - [[Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely]] - [[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference]] - [[Average competence plus action will beat superior talent without action every single time]] - [[Avoid negative people. They have a problem with every solution]] - [[Avoiding regret is more important to happiness than avoiding failure]] - [[Avoiding responsibility is a recipe for misery, and the opposite of what it takes to cultivate good judgment]] - [[Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen]] - [[Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom]] - [[Bad habits are easy to acquire when there is a delay between action and consequence]] - [[Be better each day]] - [[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience]] - [[Be careful who you hate, it could be someone you love]] - [[Be curious. Dive deep in whatever makes you curious]] - [[Be fascinated instead of frustrated]] - [[Be good to people. You will be remembered more for your kindness than any level of success you could possibly attain]] - [[Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life]] - [[Be humble. Be teachable. The universe is bigger than your view of the universe. There's always room for a new idea. Humility is necessary for growth]] - [[Be kind to yourself]] - [[Be kind. Everyone is still healing from things they don't speak about]] - [[Be loyal to your future, not your past]] - [[Be loyal to yourself]] - [[Be mindful when it comes to your words. A string of some that don’t mean much to you, may stick with someone else for a lifetime]] - [[Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still]] - [[Be patient, good things come to those who wait]] - [[Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything]] - [[Be someone you would be proud to know]] - [[Be stubborn on vision but flexible on the details]] - [[Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy]] - [[Be thankful for everything, because everything teaches you something]] - [[Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you]] - [[Be the change you want to see]] - [[Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people]] - [[Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind]] - [[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind]] - [[Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself]] - [[Be with someone who is proud of you, someone you can laugh with, someone who listens to you, understands you, who treats you well and makes you a priority]] - [[Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken]] - [[Beauty will save the world]] - [[Because paper has more patience than people]] - [[Behind every great fortune there is a crime]] - [[Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self]] - [[Being a successful entrepreneur means bridging the gap between what you think should be built and what needs to be built]] - [[Being above average at a few things makes you exponentially better at their intersection]] - [[Being consistent doesn't necessarily mean performing consistently]] - [[Being creative is the opposite of anxiety. But you can’t get to creativity if you don’t start with acceptance and compassion and simple kindness toward the self, toward the parts of the self that are doing the things you can’t stand]] - [[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage]] - [[Being inexperienced and willing to learn is better than being experienced and thinking you know it all]] - [[Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more]] - [[Belief is the willingness to take irrevocable action]] - [[Bertrand Russel's advice]] - [[Better to be king of your silence than slave of your words]] - [[Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are]] - [[Bias towards creating value, not doing work]] - [[Birds born in a cage think flying is a disease]] - [[Black holes are where God divided by zero]] - [[Bloated meetings waste time. We need better norms]] - [[Boldness is a stronger indicator of success than intelligence]] - [[Bootstrapping a business means saying no to the non-essential things. Your resources are limited, so you have to prioritize the actions and choices that have the most impact]] - [[Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. Both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other]] - [[Boring is only boring for people with no imagination]] - [[Break your egocentric little scribbler’s heart to kill your darlings]] - [[Breaks are a problem solving tool. Many ideas come when you step away from your desk & get a totally fresh perspective]] - [[Brevity is the diction of command]] - [[Buckminster Fuller]] - [[Build a business that actually leaves room to spend time with family at the end of the day, take a break if you need to, and do the things that you truly enjoy]] - [[Build a system that is right for you]] - [[Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs]] - [[Burnout is more of an issue of poor energy management and low clarity than of over-giving]] - [[But man is not made for defeat… A man can be destroyed but not defeated]] - [[Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in. But as a rule, the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents]] - [[By avoiding risk, we avoid failure. By avoiding failure, we avoid learning and success]] - [[By externalizing our thoughts, we clear mental space for creativity and innovation]] - [[By simply breaking some of your more ingrained habits you will help dissolve away your suffering]] - [[By the time someone else tells you their winning strategy, it’s too late]] - [[By the time we are adults, only one-third of us have a pretty clear idea of where our strengths and talents lie]] - [[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day]] - [[Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one]] - [[Calm your mind by writing]] - [[Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be]] - [[Capturing ideas is a critical part of being able to turn those into reality]] - [[Capturing should be a habit. It shouldn’t take any energy or decisions to save a hard-won idea]] - [[Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner]] - [[Change course, but don’t give up]] - [[Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful]] - [[Change is not a straight line to the finish. It's a winding road]] - [[Change what you're doing, to change where you're going]] - [[Chaos is the score upon which reality is written]] - [[Character is fate]] - [[Chase what you want but take what you can get]] - [[Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is unable to do anything else]] - [[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk]] - [[Choice, not chance, determines your destiny]] - [[Choose less and feel better]] - [[Choose what, when and how to change carefully and thoughtfully]] - [[Choose your competitors carefully, because you’ll become a lot like them]] - [[Circumstances don't make the man. They only reveal him to himself]] - [[Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts]] - [[Clarity of vision is key to achieving your objectives]] - [[Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world]] - [[Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions]] - [[Companies don’t negotiate. People do]] - [[Comparing ourselves to others is the best way to suffer]] - [[Comparison is the death of joy]] - [[Comparison is the thief of joy]] - [[Compassion is the basis of morality]] - [[Competition is for losers]] - [[Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do]] - [[Confidence comes from how you talk to yourself about the adversity you’ve faced and the hardships you’ve overcome]] - [[Confidence is not they will like me. Confidence is I'll be fine if they don't]] - [[Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control]] - [[Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud]] - [[Conquer your mind, and you can have anything]] - [[Conquer yourself rather than the world]] - [[Consistency finishes what excitement starts]] - [[Consistency is the hidden strength behind every success]] - [[Consistency wins the race]] - [[Consume information with a clear intent. What you consume should help you reach your goals]] - [[Consume less Reflect, apply, and implement more]] - [[Content is king]] - [[Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection]] - [[Control your emotions or they will control you]] - [[Conversations are the first draft of our thinking. The better your conversations, the better your ideas]] - [[Convince yourself every day that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well]] - [[Corruption is society's middle name]] - [[Courage is a key characteristic of future leaders and previous employees]] - [[Courage is grace under pressure]] - [[Courses are only a small part of learning. Community plays a much bigger part than people like to admit]] - [[Create systems to protect you from your lower self]] - [[Creating a clear vision of your ideal destination is an important early and ongoing step for your journey]] - [[Creating is living twice]] - [[Creativity is intelligence having fun]] - [[Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something]] - [[Critical thinking is not about doubting everything. It's about being positive, but being able to recognize untrustworthy information sources]] - [[Culture isn't about what you say. It's about what you do]] - [[Curation is a way of story telling]] - [[Curiosity makes more things possible by making more things, patiently and precisely, impossible]] - [[Customers don't buy products. They buy the benefits that these products and their suppliers offer to them]] - [[Daily 1 % improvements can make miracles in your personal, social, and professional life]] - [[Day by day, what you do is who you become]] - [[Death is a deadline that forces you to make good decisions]] - [[Decide at the last responsible moment]] - [[Decide how your day is going to go, before your day decides for you]] - [[Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them]] - [[Deliver success, not software]] - [[Depending on how information is stored, linked, and utilized, we will get either more or less use out of that information]] - [[Design work around your life, not the other way around]] - [[Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want]] - [[Desire is my enemy. No matter what I want, it causes me to be unhappy right now because I'm in need]] - [[Destiny is the link between causes and consequences]] - [[Detachment is power. Clear anything that disturbs your mental health]] - [[Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day]] - [[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body]] - [[Discipline equals freedom]] - [[Disconnecting from people to reconnect with yourself and feel like you again is top tier self-care]] - [[Do everything with a good heart. Expect nothing in return and you will never be disappointed]] - [[Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives]] - [[Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world]] - [[Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment]] - [[Do not ever let circumstances dim your light. Warrior, shine ever so bright]] - [[Do not settle for average when you have the ability to achieve greatness]] - [[Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well]] - [[Do one thing and nail it]] - [[Do or do not. There is no try]] - [[Do the best you can. No one can do more than that]] - [[Do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored]] - [[Do things from love, not ego, and not pride]] - [[Do what comes easy to you]] - [[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are]] - [[Don't be afraid to dream big]] - [[Don't be afraid to start again. This time you are not starting from scratch, you are starting from experience]] - [[Don't be afraid to start over again. This time, you're not starting from scratch. You're starting from experience]] - [[Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart]] - [[Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly]] - [[Don't break yourself just to fit into someone's life]] - [[Don't chase people. Work hard and be yourself. Under these two principles the right people will find their way into your life]] - [[Don't compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to what you were before]] - [[Don't complain about anything, unless you're prepared to do something about it]] - [[Don't complain. Just rebuild your life in private and shock everyone who doubted you]] - [[Don't confuse the work behind the work with the actual work]] - [[Don't count the days, make the days count]] - [[Don't dream about success, work hard for it]] - [[Don't fix depression. Fix your lifestyle]] - [[Don't focus on you, focus on what you can give others]] - [[Don't get caught up in thinking about what to build just build]] - [[Don't give up because of one bad chapter in your life. Keep going. Your story doesn't end there]] - [[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you]] - [[Don't judge me until you know me. Don't underestimate me until you challenge me. And don't talk about me until you talk to me]] - [[Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better]] - [[Don't just think it. Ink it]] - [[Don't kill what you hate say what you love]] - [[Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes tell your how to tie your laces]] - [[Don't let anyone's ignorance, hate, drama or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be]] - [[Don't let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life]] - [[Don't listen to the person who has the answers. Listen to the person who has the questions]] - [[Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong]] - [[Don't regret the past, just learn from it]] - [[Don't ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go]] - [[Don't rush, but don't wait]] - [[Don't say anything unless you're sure it's worth hearing]] - [[Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you]] - [[Don't sell products. Sell stories]] - [[Don't spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it]] - [[Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you]] - [[Don't trust words, trust actions]] - [[Don't try to find the best design in software architecture. Instead, strive for the least worst combination of trade-offs]] - [[Don't wait for an opportunity. Create it]] - [[Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect]] - [[Don't wait, the time will never be just right]] - [[Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend]] - [[Don't waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear]] - [[Don't work for money, make it work for you]] - [[Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer]] - [[Don’t fear losing. Winning never comes easy, is rarely predictable, and never follows a straight line. Setbacks always happen. Setbacks should be converted into passionate feel and belief]] - [[Don’t fill the time you save through being productive and efficient with more work. Fill it with rest and recovery. By doing so, you’ll be more productive]] - [[Don’t focus on more than one desire at a time]] - [[Don’t just shout your idea into the void. Repeat it until it’s heard]] - [[Don’t let yourself be controlled by three things. People, money, or past experiences]] - [[Don’t sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Dream, plan, execute]] - [[Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone]] - [[Don’t waste your time trying to get people to love you. Spend your time with those who already do]] - [[Don’t worry about creating the perfect system]] - [[Don’t worry if your goals seem crazy to other people. Oftentimes the crazy ideas are the ones that have the greatest impact]] - [[Done right, a strategic intent is really one decision that makes 1,000 decisions]] - [[Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will]] - [[Dreams are messages from the deep]] - [[Dreams without goals are just dreams. They just fuel disappointment]] - [[During a gold rush, sell shovels]] - [[During difficult times, ask yourself. What do I have to do to make this one of the best things that has ever happened to me]] - [[Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most]] - [[Each of us has an ephemeral look at the world]] - [[Each team is different with different standards and tech debt]] - [[Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all]] - [[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world]] - [[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school]] - [[Education isn't something you can finish]] - [[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit]] - [[Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence]] - [[Eighty percent of success is showing up]] - [[Either you lift people up by respecting them, making them feel valued, appreciated and heard. Or you hold people down by making them feel small, insulted, disregarded or excluded]] - [[Either you run the day or the day runs you]] - [[Either your intuitions are good or not. Follow them. If they're good, you'll eventually be successful. If they're not, it doesn't matter what you do. Trust your intuition]] - [[Embrace the embarrassment of being a beginner]] - [[Engage in tasks that ignite your passion, for they will drive you forward with unyielding force]] - [[Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks. Make sure it's all worth it]] - [[Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead]] - [[Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things]] - [[Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think]] - [[Entrepreneurship is like jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down]] - [[Entrepreneurship is living years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't]] - [[Entropy is a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our lives]] - [[Envy is a capricious emotion]] - [[Erin's 2021 ideas about the future of communities]] - [[Escape competition through authenticity]] - [[Eternity is awful long time, especially towards the end]] - [[Eventual success can only come from relentlessly showing up]] - [[Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination]] - [[Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become]] - [[Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently. Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career and work]] - [[Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home]] - [[Every evolution of Personal Knowledge Management brings more freedom to connect and organize knowledge, ideas, and inspiration]] - [[Every human buys with emotion and then justifies with logic after the fact]] - [[Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of ignorance]] - [[Every morning you have two choices. Continue to sleep with your dreams, or get up and chase them]] - [[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end]] - [[Every new project you commit to reduces the chances that any of the others will finish successfully]] - [[Every next level of your life will require a new version of you]] - [[Every now and then it’s good to stop climbing and appreciate the view from right where you are]] - [[Every person you have ever met has the potential to help you]] - [[Every process has inputs, outputs, and steps that lead to the outputs]] - [[Every strike brings me closer to the next home run]] - [[Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future]] - [[Every time you judge someone, you reveal a part of yourself that needs healing]] - [[Everybody wants to change others. Nobody wants to be changed]] - [[Everyone dies alone]] - [[Everyone has leftover minutes in their day]] - [[Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own]] - [[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself]] - [[Everyone who strives to reach his potential must pay a price, in time, effort, resources, and opportunities missed. Many people fail to pay the price that their potential demands]] - [[Everyone's looking for an angle. The best one is 0 degrees. Just be straightforward]] - [[Everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality, but upon the perception of reality]] - [[Everything is a learning opportunity]] - [[Everything is an experiment in life]] - [[Everything is better when you decide you don't care]] - [[Everything is made up and there are no rules]] - [[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves]] - [[Everything will be okay in the end. And if it's not okay, it's not the end]] - [[Everything worthwhile is uphill]] - [[Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you]] - [[Everytime you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect]] - [[Excessive complexity is nature’s punishment for organizations that are unable to make decisions]] - [[Expect less, prepare more. Judge less, respect more. Complain less, thank more. Regret less, smile more]] - [[Experience is a teacher with much to give]] - [[Experience is something you gain right after you need it]] - [[Experience teaches nothing]] - [[Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment]] - [[Explorers are risk-takers. That is how they end up succeeding. To succeed, become an explorer. Not an imitator]] - [[Failing to plan is planning to fail]] - [[Failing to take action allows us to escape responsibility]] - [[Failure doesn't stop when you succeed. Failure is part of the game]] - [[Fasting focuses the mind. It replaces all desires with a single desire]] - [[Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision]] - [[Fear is not the mind-killer, context switching is the mind-killer]] - [[Fear is only the beginning of courage]] - [[Fear is the only thing that gets smaller when you run towards it]] - [[Fears are like quicksand. The longer you stand in them, the harder it is to move]] - [[Feynman used to keep 12 favorite problems in his mind and tested new ideas against them]] - [[Figure out what you can do better than anyone else. Do it until everyone sees how good you are. Stand out from the crowd]] - [[Find your intersection of obsession and competence and execute like hell]] - [[Find your own way of functioning. I struggled for the first year and a half as an undergraduate. But I developed my own ways of learning things. So I advise students, find your own way and your own directions that you can be successful in]] - [[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could]] - [[First-principles thinking is a competitive advantage because almost no one does it]] - [[First-time founders are obsessed with product. Second-time founders are obsessed with distribution]] - [[Flow is always there. You’re just in the way]] - [[Focus is the cost of excellence]] - [[Focus more on making the pie bigger than on exactly how to slice it so that you or anyone else gets the biggest piece]] - [[Focus on big things but fix papercuts]] - [[Focus on improving yourself, not proving yourself]] - [[Focus on problems, they grow. Focus on solutions, you grow]] - [[Focus on the problem to solve and give it your undivided attention and effort. Produce high-quality work that is secure]] - [[Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life]] - [[Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now]] - [[Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me]] - [[For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned]] - [[For me, not working is the real work]] - [[For now, ask yourself, 'Who do you want to be' Don’t ask yourself what you want to achieve. Honestly, the world already decides so much of that for you]] - [[Forget about founding a startup. Instead become a VC for your own ideas]] - [[Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day]] - [[Forget more than you learn. Knowledge evolves. What the world believes to be true evolves all the time. If you remember everything and hold it as true in your mind, you're doomed to live in the past]] - [[Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past]] - [[Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune]] - [[Freedom is also about freeing ourselves from conscious and unconscious internal orders]] - [[Freedom is not a goal, but a direction]] - [[Freedom is not about doing what you want. It is about not doing what you do not want to]] - [[Freedom is the ability to live life in a prison of your own making, rather than someone else's]] - [[Freedom is the condition of creativity]] - [[Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs]] - [[Freewriting involves opening up a new note or existing note and letting your thoughts flow. There is no judgement. You freely write]] - [[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value. Rather, it is one of those things which give value to survival]] - [[From my experience, the most common trait you will consistently observe in accomplished people is an obsession with completion. Once a project falls into their horizon, they crave almost compulsively, to finish it]] - [[From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success]] - [[Games cost a lot more money than their price tag. The opportunity cost is HUGE]] - [[Gatekeeping is damaging for everyone. Open, humble authenticity is a culture of learning where everyone wins]] - [[George Bernard Shaw about life]] - [[Get busy living or get busy dying]] - [[Get comfortable asking smart people dumb questions]] - [[Get it done first. Get it right later]] - [[Get the ball rolling. Create positive momentum for yourself]] - [[Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth]] - [[Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay]] - [[Give up on your fears, not your dreams]] - [[Give yourself a gift, the present moment]] - [[Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky]] - [[Give, even if you only have a little]] - [[Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here]] - [[Go big or go broke]] - [[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined]] - [[Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough]] - [[Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress]] - [[Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive]] - [[Good is the enemy of great]] - [[Good software takes ten years]] - [[Good systems prevent you from exhausting your short supply of willpower]] - [[Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them]] - [[Good thinkers get clear on their terms and know their exact boundaries, so their thinking is crisp and clear, not fuzzy or ambiguous. Define your terms]] - [[Grapes must be crushed to make wine. Diamonds are formed under pressure. Olives are pressed to release oil. Seeds grow in the Dark]] - [[Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful yes at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything]] - [[Great culture, great system, great manager. Pick two]] - [[Grit is to endure the failures and adversity to achieve long term goals]] - [[Grow through what you go through]] - [[Growth is messy, healing is messy, hearts are messy, life is messy, being human is messy. But time stops for no one. The sun will rise each day and it's up to you to decide whether you shall rise with it]] - [[Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong]] - [[Guard your time. Forget the money]] - [[Happiness can't be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude]] - [[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know]] - [[Happiness is neither in being or having. It's in doing]] - [[Happiness isn't something you postpone for the future. It's something you design for the present]] - [[Hard work includes hard thinking]] - [[Hardships are forcing functions for personal growth]] - [[Have a why, and be relentlessly obsessed with completing small things so you don’t get overwhelmed]] - [[Have more than you show, speak less than you know]] - [[Having a child is the ultimate Pomodoro technique]] - [[Having authority may give you a title, but it’s trust that makes you a leader]] - [[Having money isn't everything, not having it is]] - [[Having no friends or not being involved in community activities will dramatically affect how long you live]] - [[He who has a why, can bare almost any how]] - [[He who laughs most, learns best]] - [[He would never go out without a book under one arm and he would often return with two]] - [[History repeats itself. First as tragedy, then as farce]] - [[History teaches us that man learns nothing from history]] - [[Hitting goals is great, but without vision, we won't know where we're going]] - [[Hofstadter's Law]] - [[Home is a name, a word, it is a strong on. Stronger than magician ever spoke or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration]] - [[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come]] - [[Hope for the best, prepare for the worst]] - [[Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness]] - [[How can I be my greatest lover]] - [[How can you tell a blind man the beauty of colors. You had to experience it to understand it]] - [[How do functions break up. They stop calling each other]] - [[How do people even know what they think, if they don't write]] - [[How little we know of what there is to know]] - [[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world]] - [[How you journal is much less important than why you are doing it. To get something off your chest. To have quiet time with your thoughts]] - [[Human beings are completionists. We like to finish things. Close the loop. Hear the end of the story. See the happy ending to a movie]] - [[Human excellence can only be achieved in one area, or at the most in very few]] - [[Humility is having a good grasp on what we're good at and what we're not. And having confidence in both]] - [[I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me]] - [[I am a gelley slave to pen and ink]] - [[I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot Accept]] - [[I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become]] - [[I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying]] - [[I can be happy anywhere]] - [[I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn]] - [[I cannot overemphasize how much everything is made up and there are no rules]] - [[I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion]] - [[I don't have free time, I have a journal]] - [[I don't have time to hate people who hate me, because I'm too busy loving the people who love me]] - [[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well]] - [[I don’t hate br. That’s the only time I catch a break!]] - [[I don’t have confidence in myself, I have evidence]] - [[I don’t rage. Life is too short. Instead view them as adorable ways of life. Especially when it’s my kids. Constructions instead of instructions (to construct)]] - [[I don’t want to throw anything out. At least not yet. I might change my mind, I tell myself]] - [[I dream of a future where all our Personal Knowledge Graphs become shareable, discoverable, and connectable, creating much deeper Knowledge Graphs for humanity. Of course, with privacy and control]] - [[I hate writing, I love having written]] - [[I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library]] - [[I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter]] - [[I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious]] - [[I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road]] - [[I learned who I am by unlearning who they taught me to be]] - [[I like my morals and will stick to them as long as it's convenient]] - [[I love to laugh]] - [[I never understand anything until I have written about it]] - [[I no longer want to stay on top of things, I want to get to the bottom of things]] - [[I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else]] - [[I quote others only the better to express myself]] - [[I think people confuse inaction with patience]] - [[I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side]] - [[I think, therefore I am]] - [[I try not to speak more clearly than I think]] - [[I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone]] - [[I want to continue being crazy. Living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be]] - [[I want to find my own place. And set a new kind of pace. Get lost in spiritual space. Changing the human race]] - [[I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there]] - [[I will have to remember I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators]] - [[I will inspire the world just by being me]] - [[I will prepare and some day my chance will come]] - [[I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned]] - [[I would tell you but I'm afraid of how you would React]] - [[I write ideas down so I don't commit suicide later having forgotten the idea]] - [[I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of]] - [[I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe]] - [[I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel]] - [[I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring]] - [[I'm a writer and I live in imagination to survive in reality]] - [[I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things]] - [[I'm convinced that about half of what separates the most successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance]] - [[I'm going to succeed, because I'm crazy enough to think I can]] - [[I'm in charge of my worries and my fears]] - [[I'm not crazy. My reality is just different from yours]] - [[I'm not deep, but I am very wide]] - [[I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]] - [[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel]] - [[I've neither the time, nor the crayons to explain this to you...]] - [[I've never regretted prioritizing time over money in my life. Less money means simpler choices, and more time means more possibilities for passion and fullfillment]] - [[I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened]] - [[Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters]] - [[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen]] - [[Identity lags reality by 1-2 years. There’s a lot of psychological fallout from a rapid change in status]] - [[If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it]] - [[If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable]] - [[If an action could have a major impact on your life...you must decide and not merely choose]] - [[If I don’t write it down immediately, I forget it right away. If I put it into a sketchbook, I never forget it and I never have to look it up again]] - [[If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses]] - [[If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible]] - [[If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive]] - [[If it hurts to hear it, look for the truth in it. If it comforts to hear it, look for the lie in it]] - [[If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth]] - [[If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try]] - [[If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less]] - [[If one cannot describe an idea in simple terms, then they do not really understand it]] - [[If only school would teach us to learn and act on information instead of shoving it down our throats, then lots of knowledge workers would actually achieve something]] - [[If simple things are not simple, the complex things are not possible. Simplicity is the greatest gift you can give to your coworkers]] - [[If someone could only see your actions and not hear your words, what would they say are your priorities]] - [[If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes -- then learn how to do it later]] - [[If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important]] - [[If the why is powerful, the how is easy]] - [[If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it]] - [[If there is something holding you back in your life. Identify it. Focus on breaking past it. It will change your life]] - [[If there was a pill to cure procrastination, I would probably take it tomorrow]] - [[If they don't pay, they're not a customer and it's not validation]] - [[If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others]] - [[If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won’t succeed. We can’t pursue the benefits of networks. The benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships]] - [[If we don’t define enough, we default to more, which makes it impossible to understand when to say no]] - [[If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other]] - [[If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in the end you’ll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won’t even notice your mistake and will begin to rationalise your behaviour]] - [[If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present]] - [[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment]] - [[If you are getting jealous of others, you are not working hard enough]] - [[If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself]] - [[If you are pained by external things, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it]] - [[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow]] - [[If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror]] - [[If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are]] - [[If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears]] - [[If you aren’t willing to suck, you’re never going to get good]] - [[If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win]] - [[If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way. Writing is the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with]] - [[If you can't be first, be better. If you can't be better, be different]] - [[If you can't choose wisely, choose randomly]] - [[If you can't decide, the answer is no]] - [[If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting]] - [[If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change]] - [[If you compete with people who only think short-term, you don't have to worry much. Eventually the weight of their actions anchors them]] - [[If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place]] - [[If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained]] - [[If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you. Not much]] - [[If you don't fill your calendar yourself, someone else will do it for you]] - [[If you don't know who you are, there are plenty of people who will give you their opinion]] - [[If you don't learn anything from writing an essay, don't publish it]] - [[If you don't leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away]] - [[If you don't like where you are, move! You are not a tree!]] - [[If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong. If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong. If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all]] - [[If you don't put them (bugs) in, you don't have to take them out]] - [[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything]] - [[If you don't take a chance, you don't stand a chance]] - [[If you don't understand people, you don't understand business]] - [[If you don’t have a good system for storing bad ideas, you probably don’t have one for filing good ones, either]] - [[If you don’t have leverage, you’re never going to make real wealth]] - [[If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that]] - [[If you don’t know it, it’s because you aren’t interested in it]] - [[If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else]] - [[If you ever feel overwhelmed, go to open spaces]] - [[If you feel like it's miserable and hard, stop making yourself do the hard thing… It's better to accept that you're lazy and cowardly, and then make it easy enough so you can do it anyway. That's my whole strategy with life]] - [[If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit]] - [[If you go to broad you can't go deep but you have to choose either you go breadth first or depth first]] - [[If you have a dream, don't waste your energies explaining why]] - [[If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal, but a wish]] - [[If you have a sacred place and use it, something will eventually happen]] - [[If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there]] - [[If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. The world needs more of that]] - [[If you hoard knowledge and store in your graph just for the sake of repurposing it, you are just mimicking chaptgpt and it won't be long before it will make you redundant]] - [[If you ignore everything, then the world will ignore you]] - [[If you keep tolerating, they will keep on disrespecting]] - [[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of]] - [[If you make a mistake, repeat it]] - [[If you manage to have fun when things get really hard, then you are made to be an entrepreneur]] - [[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun]] - [[If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful]] - [[If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking]] - [[If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination]] - [[If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time]] - [[If you really want something, stop chasing it]] - [[If you really want to learn how something works, try to change it]] - [[If you see something, save something]] - [[If you see your decisions not as attempts at getting something, but rather as experiments on the path to figuring out the optimal course of action, there's no success or failure anymore, just varying rates of learning efficiency]] - [[If you spend more time planning than doing the work, you have a productivity problem]] - [[If you spend time with them, and they won't pay. They are NOT a customer. They are a liability. Get rid of those]] - [[If you struggle to stick with good habits, find ways to recognize the positive feedback loops between the effort and the results faster]] - [[If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real]] - [[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything]] - [[If you tell yourself that you are happy, everything around you will wake up and smile with you]] - [[If you think learning is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance]] - [[If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking]] - [[If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started]] - [[If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net]] - [[If you want to be rewarded, you have to be irreplaceable. If you want to be irreplaceable, you have to be unique. If you want to be unique, you have to be authentic. If you want to be authentic, stop listening to everyone and everything else]] - [[If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself]] - [[If you want to be taken seriously, be consistent]] - [[If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy]] - [[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things]] - [[If you want to take control of your priorities, use a calendar and not a to-do list]] - [[If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing]] - [[If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight]] - [[If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too]] - [[If you're struggling, take a step back and remember it's not about you]] - [[If you're trying to sell something, everything you do is marketing]] - [[If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress]] - [[If you’re asking for advice, you’re not going to make it. Making it requires making it, not asking someone else how to make it]] - [[If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even try]] - [[If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even try]] - [[If your fear is stronger than your intention, then it’s your fear that’s creating the reality]] - [[If your life just got harder, that means you've leveled up]] - [[If your path is difficult it is because your purpose is bigger than you thought]] - [[If your project is only half done, just delete the other half. Now it is fully done]] - [[Imagination is more important than knowledge]] - [[Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness]] - [[Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction]] - [[Impostor syndrome is what happens when even I can't believe just how amazing I am]] - [[In a world eager to win arguments, be the one who seeks to understand. Peace follows understanding, not victory. The greatest legacy we can leave is not wealth or fame, but a trail of peace that shapes the future]] - [[In between goals is this thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed]] - [[In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional]] - [[In nostalgia, there is no difference between a day, a year, a decade, or a lifetime, because the amount of longing is beyond the idea of time]] - [[In order to talk to each other, we have to have words]] - [[In order to write about life first you must live it]] - [[In the age of distraction, focus is a superpower]] - [[In the depths of our true Self we are peace, freedom, well-being, and contentment]] - [[In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years]] - [[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is]] - [[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive]] - [[In today's information-rich world, perspective is the most valuable resource]] - [[In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business]] - [[In your quest for free productive time, preparation is your secret weapon]] - [[Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it]] - [[Information is data that changes us]] - [[Information is just data, knowledge is how you use the data]] - [[Information is not knowledge]] - [[Innovation is rebellion until it succeeds]] - [[Instead of asking people what they think about something. Ask them how they feel about it]] - [[Integrity is choosing courage over comfort. It's choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy. It's choosing to practice your values rather than simply professing them]] - [[Intelligence is a collection of skills, and an ability to acquire new skills efficiently, and the set of skills is a high dimensional thing]] - [[Intelligence is not what we know, but what we do when we don't know]] - [[Intelligence is what you make of it]] - [[Intelligence plus experience equals wisdom]] - [[Ira Glass on the creative gap]] - [[Isolation is a gift]] - [[It ain't over till it's over]] - [[It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop]] - [[It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop]] - [[It does not require many words to speak the truth]] - [[It doesn’t matter how you record your notes. As long as you do]] - [[It doesn’t matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going]] - [[It doesn’t take money to make money, it takes leverage to make money]] - [[It has always been, and will always be about getting it wrong until you get it right]] - [[It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better plan than here. What better time than now.]] - [[It is a lot better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction]] - [[It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men]] - [[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]] - [[It is hard to fail, but it is worse to never have tried to succeed]] - [[It is inevitable, if you enter into relations with people on a regular basis, that you will grow to be like them]] - [[It is more difficult for people to make decisions when they have a large number of choices. Having too much choice leaves people feeling dissatisfied]] - [[It is more productive to try to understand someone else’s point of view than to fight it. You either learn something new about the world or avoid wasting your energy on pointless arguments]] - [[It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan]] - [[It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult]] - [[It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It's gratefulness that makes us happy]] - [[It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till]] - [[It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it]] - [[It is not the length of life, but the depth]] - [[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it]] - [[It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry]] - [[It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan]] - [[It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are]] - [[It takes entrepreneurs an average of 3.8 failed ventures before they manage to start a successful business]] - [[It takes time to build good things]] - [[It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents]] - [[It's always useful to think about the end goal, but it's also useful to think about the reachable small wins]] - [[It's an order of magnitude less work to create a lie than to refute one]] - [[It's during the worst storms of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care about you]] - [[It's during the worst storms of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you]] - [[It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows]] - [[It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice]] - [[It's not sex that brings us meaning. It's not power that brings us meaning. Suffering brings us meaning]] - [[It's not the height that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the bottom]] - [[It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it]] - [[It's okay to be a generalist, but you should position yourself as a specialist in the market. Otherwise, you'll get hired either by people who don't know what they want, what they need or by people who can't afford a specialist]] - [[It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it]] - [[It's only when the tide goes out that you find out who's been swimming naked]] - [[It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart]] - [[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting]] - [[It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude]] - [[It’s easier to build something a small number of people love than something a lot of people like]] - [[It’s enormously satisfying to be confident enough in your writing to reject a robot’s fixes]] - [[It’s not about finding the perfect tools and hacks. It's about strategy and execution]] - [[It’s not about how much you learn It’s about how you organize that knowledge, and your ability to recall it when you need it most]] - [[It’s not about the apps – it’s about the system]] - [[It’s not about who does it first. It’s about who does it right]] - [[It’s precisely those who are busiest who most need to give themselves a break]] - [[It’s pretty simple. Either you read or you don’t. If you read, you probably want to do it more. If you don’t read, I’m not going to convince you to put down the remote]] - [[It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future]] - [[It’s your job to have the highest quality standards of anybody you work with. Every day, you’ll face pressure to lower them. Don’t do it. If you can set a high standard and simply maintain it, you’ll do very well for yourself]] - [[It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you]] - [[Je ne suis pas allé partout, mais je suis revenu de tout]] - [[Je ne suis pas un, je suis plusieurs. Je suis un vrai bordel]] - [[Je pense donc je suis]] - [[Je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui]] - [[Je suis comme les ruisseaux. Je suis clair parce que je ne suis pas profond]] - [[Journaling helps me clarify my thinking, process my feelings, and make better decisions]] - [[Journaling helps you not only expand your ideas, but also prevents you from losing the important ideas that you may want to act on in the future]] - [[Just because something seems urgent doesn't mean it really is]] - [[Just because you can capture everything doesn’t mean you should]] - [[Just because you have impostor syndrome doesn't mean you aren't incompetent]] - [[Just do it, because no one else will do it for you]] - [[Just do it. Just don't quit]] - [[Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you]] - [[Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadfastness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things]] - [[Kindness is delivered, empathy is lived]] - [[Kindness is invincible]] - [[Knowing a concept wrongly is more dangerous than skipping a concept]] - [[Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness]] - [[Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape]] - [[Knowing what to do is only half the battle]] - [[Knowing what you want is a competitive advantage]] - [[Knowledge and wisdom can be information]] - [[Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding]] - [[Knowledge is action, not a description of action]] - [[Knowledge is doing things right]] - [[Knowledge is emergent. It lies in the connections we make between ideas. That's why mental models are so useful to develop and acquire]] - [[Knowledge is less providing answers than asking in right terms the good questions]] - [[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice]] - [[Knowledge is power, but keeping the knowledge is the real challenge]] - [[Knowledge is understanding, experience, and accumulated learning]] - [[Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention]] - [[Knowledge learned the hard way combined with the avoidance of error, whenever and wherever possible, is the soundest basis for success in any endeavour]] - [[L'angoisse est le vertige de la liberté]] - [[L'immortalité c'est long, surtout vers la fin]] - [[La fortune sourit aux audacieux]] - [[La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller]] - [[Language can be thought of as the operating system of the mind. It is not the substrate of the mind]] - [[Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends]] - [[Large projects act as magnets attracting additional cost, scope, and risk]] - [[Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught]] - [[Le pouvoir exige des corps tristes]] - [[Le principal fléau de l'humanité n'est pas l'ignorance, mais le refus de savoir]] - [[Le seul véritable voyage, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux]] - [[Leadership is disappointing people at a rate that they can absorb]] - [[Leadership is not a rank or position to be attained. Leadership is a service to be given]] - [[Learn how to learn]] - [[Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist]] - [[Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable]] - [[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere]] - [[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival]] - [[Learning more is a smart person’s favorite way to procrastinate]] - [[Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard]] - [[Learning to design is learning to see]] - [[Leave Things BETTER than you found them]] - [[Les êtres sensibles ne sont pas des êtres sensés]] - [[Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final]] - [[Let fruitful processes grow and let friction do the pruning]] - [[Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful]] - [[Life does not wait for anyone. Your life is right now]] - [[Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient]] - [[Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it]] - [[Life is a balance between holding on and letting go]] - [[Life is a combinatorially explosive decision tree]] - [[Life is about surrounding yourself with like-minded others, and having a positive effect on the rest of the world. You don't have to have made a huge impact either, just being on the path to doing it is success enough]] - [[Life is addition up until age 40, and after that it's subtraction]] - [[Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing]] - [[Life is just too short not to enjoy what you're doing. If we can't make this fun, we should stop doing it]] - [[Life is like a book. If you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds]] - [[Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you gonna get]] - [[Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop]] - [[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving]] - [[Life is long if you know how to use it]] - [[Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well]] - [[Life is not a novel to be read, but to be written]] - [[Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away]] - [[Life is simply what our feelings do to us]] - [[Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people’s approval on how you live it]] - [[Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing]] - [[Life is too short. Work on what makes you happy. Be with people who make you smile. Laugh as often as you can. Love as long as you live]] - [[Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future]] - [[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself]] - [[Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself]] - [[Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile]] - [[Life, I've found, works the following way. Daily, you're presented with many small and surprising opportunities. Sometimes you seize one that takes you to the top. Most, though, if valuable at all, take you only a little way]] - [[Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself]] - [[Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming]] - [[Linking ideas together helps us remember and (re)use those]] - [[Literacy is liberation]] - [[Literature is a wonderful profession, because haste has no part of it. Whether a really good book is finished a year earlier or a year later, makes no difference]] - [[Live a life true to yourself and worry less about what others expect of you]] - [[Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy]] - [[Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere]] - [[Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness]] - [[Love is the poetry of the senses]] - [[Love is the ultimate act of understanding]] - [[Love of money is the root of all evil]] - [[Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things]] - [[Lowering the bar doesn't mean setting your sights on mediocrity. It means recognizing the power of incremental progress]] - [[Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity]] - [[Luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc]] - [[Main value of a habit of writing]] - [[Make it work, make it right, make it fast. In that order]] - [[Make something people want]] - [[Make success the only option and your mind will give you no choice but to achieve it]] - [[Make the most of life you're living NOW]] - [[Make your heart the most beautiful thing about you]] - [[Make your ideas paper airplanes. Simple, fast to construct, easy to explain, and easier to try]] - [[Make yourself a priority once in a while. It's not selfish. It's self care]] - [[Making a good decision is about the process, not the outcome]] - [[Making money is a consequence of making a difference in people's lives]] - [[Making money is not a thing that you do. It is a skill that you learn]] - [[Making money is not a thing that you do. It's a skill that you learn]] - [[Making money online is very easy, you just need a strong head and consistent action]] - [[Malheur à moi, je suis nuance]] - [[Man is a knowing animal]] - [[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth]] - [[Managers change the people to fit the system. Leaders change the system to fit the people]] - [[Mastery comes from the deliberate practice of what you find hard]] - [[Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work]] - [[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty]] - [[Maturity starts when the individual feels responsible for his or her own life]] - [[Maximizing perspective fuels innovative solutions]] - [[May you live all the days of your life]] - [[May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears]] - [[Maybe we're just drifting from moment to moment, trying to do what's right]] - [[Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind]] - [[Memorizing is not learning]] - [[Midlife is when the universe gently places her hands on your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear. I'm not screwing around. It's time to show up and be seen]] - [[Mind your brain diet]] - [[Mindset is everything. Once you believe you can achieve something, you most likely will]] - [[Mindset is the base for methods that are the base for tools]] - [[Modern writing isn't created. It's assembled]] - [[Momentum is motivating. You'll be surprised how far one small first step can get you]] - [[Mon père m'a donné un cœur, mais vous l'avez fait battre]] - [[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver]] - [[Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win]] - [[More time is wasted focusing on the past than the future]] - [[Most developers spend more time reading code than actually writing code. For example, when reviewing or debugging code, reading documentation, or just when iterating on a feature. Therefore, make sure your code is readable and understandable]] - [[Most errors in judgment happen when we don't know we're supposed to be exercising judgment]] - [[Most of the time change isn't painful. It's our resistance to change that is painful]] - [[Most of your limitations are self-imposed. If you want something, there’s always a way - your mind just won’t let you see it]] - [[Most overnight successes have been a decade in the making]] - [[Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years... Or as long as it takes to win]] - [[Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75]] - [[Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened by responsibility]] - [[Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years]] - [[Move your focus away from finding the right work, toward working right, and eventually build a love for what you do]] - [[Murder your darlings]] - [[My best successes came on the heels of failures]] - [[My biggest mistake is thinking that people care for me as much as I do for them]] - [[My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions]] - [[My favourite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time]] - [[My head is a prison and nobody visits]] - [[My overall goal is to get free of being forced to work]] - [[My predominant feeling is one of gratitude]] - [[Myope des yeux, myope du coeur, myope du cul]] - [[Name, fame, money, and power don't spoil you, they only reveal who you are]] - [[Necessity is the brave teacher. Who leads us to brilliant questions. She’s like a determined preacher. Who shares bold insights and suggestions]] - [[Negotiations are won by whoever cares less]] - [[Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience]] - [[Never ask a barber if you need a haircut]] - [[Never bet against a person who just keeps showing up]] - [[Never change for someone. If they can't accept you for who you are at your worst, they don't deserve to see you at your best]] - [[Never compare the insides of your life to the outsides of someone else's]] - [[Never complain, never explain. Let your actions speak for themselves]] - [[Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it's meant to be, it will happen]] - [[Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them]] - [[Never judge people by their past. People learn. People change. People move on]] - [[Never let an old flame burn you twice]] - [[Never let anyone disturb your composure, deter your accomplishment, or destroy your happiness]] - [[Never let someone's perception determine who you are]] - [[Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present]] - [[Never mistake activity for achievement]] - [[Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant]] - [[Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow]] - [[Never put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket]] - [[Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories]] - [[Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, worst days give you lessons, and best days give you memories]] - [[Never regret anything that made you smile]] - [[Never say I can't. Instead, say, I presently struggle with]] - [[Never stop being a good person because of bad people]] - [[Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching]] - [[Never stop learning. The moment you believe you have all the answers is the moment you stop growing]] - [[Never time to do it right. Always time to do it twice]] - [[No human being can possibly predict the future, let alone control it]] - [[No lifetime, no matter how successful, will be truly rewarding or happy if you cannot learn to love yourself and be yourself]] - [[No man was ever wise by chance]] - [[No map to the top. No guidebook. No ten steps. No secrets. Just not quitting]] - [[No matter how good a person you are, you are evil in someone's story]] - [[No need for trust when everything is easy]] - [[No one has ever become poor by giving]] - [[No one is too busy, it's only a matter of priorities]] - [[No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may]] - [[No one sees the world the same way you see it. Remembering this can give you a little more patience and compassion toward your fellow earth travelers]] - [[No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them]] - [[No relationship is worth damaging your mental health]] - [[No such thing as spare time. No such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go]] - [[None of us chooses how we start this life, but we have a big role in deciding how we finish]] - [[Normalize being real humans everywhere all the time]] - [[Normalize being smart enough to listen to smarter people]] - [[Normalize imperfection. The best things in life are rough around the edges]] - [[Not all those who wander are lost]] - [[Not all writing is worth reading. Just because someone can put words on a page doesn’t mean they are worth reading or add value. Every minute you waste reading something bad is a minute that could've been spent reading something great]] - [[Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life]] - [[Not having any expectations in life is a pretty big expectation in itself]] - [[Not taking things personally is a superpower]] - [[Note taking has to act like a pipeline to be useful]] - [[Note taking is, in a sense, the inverse of lecture delivery]] - [[Note-taking is, in a sense, the inverse of lecture delivery]] - [[Notes don't make contemporary physics easier, they make it possible]] - [[Nothing changes if nothing changes]] - [[Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me]] - [[Nothing is evil in the beginning]] - [[Nothing is impossible. But today I did nothing]] - [[Nothing is permanent. Don't stress yourself too much because no matter how bad the situation is, it will change]] - [[Nothing is worth more than today]] - [[Nothing taught by force stays in the soul]] - [[Now trumps later every time]] - [[Observe when you’re angry. Anger is a loss of control over the situation]] - [[Oceans separates lands, not souls]] - [[On apprend toujours seul, mais jamais sans les autres]] - [[On mesure l'intelligence d'un individu à la quantité d'incertitudes qu'il est capable de supporter]] - [[Once you learn to read, you will be forever free]] - [[Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you]] - [[Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them]] - [[One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again]] - [[One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books. Bad books are intellectual poison. They destroy the mind]] - [[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple]] - [[One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide]] - [[One day you'll wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now]] - [[One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful]] - [[One day, someone is going to hold you so tight that all your broken pieces fit back together]] - [[One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way]] - [[One of the central challenges of creative work is the capture of images and other forms of condensed thought]] - [[One of the most important and overlooked part of PKM is how to capture ideas when you are away from the computer]] - [[Only dead fish go with the flow]] - [[Only entropy comes easy]] - [[Only focus on what you can control]] - [[Only intrinsic motivation lasts]] - [[Only parts of us ever touch others]] - [[Only the dead have seen the end of the war]] - [[Only the mediocre are always at their best]] - [[Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go]] - [[Only trust someone who can see these three things in you. The sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason behind your silence]] - [[Only write code when you can’t think of any other way to validate your hypothesis]] - [[Opportunities are like fish. A lot of in your sea (life) but to see them you need to be fully present and to… fish. Do you have enough energy and attention to be a good fisherman. That is the question]] - [[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work]] - [[Opportunity is missed by most people because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work]] - [[Optimize your career for happiness]] - [[Organizing yourself is a journey, not a destination]] - [[Originality is undetected plagiarism]] - [[Our environment shapes our behavior]] - [[Our greatest fears lie in anticipation]] - [[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time]] - [[Our gut changes like a face, associated with every emotion]] - [[Our heart is a treasury. If you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt]] - [[Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it]] - [[Our judgements about the world tell us a great deal about ourselves and very little about the world]] - [[Our temporary solution to a temporary problem has become a permanent problem]] - [[Our thoughts are the lens through which we see the world]] - [[Our tools change us. They rewire our brains]] - [[Out of touch, out of mind]] - [[Outside of comparing we cannot feel]] - [[Overthinking kills your happiness]] - [[Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think]] - [[Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands]] - [[Passion is born deaf and dumb]] - [[Past results don't guarantee future outcomes, especially in entrepreneurship. Treat all advice as anecdotal]] - [[Pay yourself as much as you need to not be distracted by anything that would slow you down]] - [[People are troubled not by things but by their judgments about things]] - [[People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures]] - [[People don't buy products. They buy emotions]] - [[People don't buy what you do. They buy why you do it]] - [[People don't care about your solutions nearly as much as they care about their problems. If you want to make a sale, focus on the problems]] - [[People don’t reach their potential on accident. The secret to success can be found in people’s daily agendas]] - [[People fail for two reasons. They don’t have a plan. They don’t stick to the plan]] - [[People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things]] - [[People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t]] - [[People who are attracted to you because of your pretty face or nice body won't be by your side forever. But the people who can see how beautiful your heart is will never leave you]] - [[People who share fast and frequently gain followers, whether or not they are full of fluff]] - [[People who think they already have all the answers will always refuse to ingest new information that might contradict their views. They just don't want to risk their certitudes. As a result, they never learn anything new and new grow.]] - [[People won't remember you for the work you did, but for the way you made them feel]] - [[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away]] - [[Perfection is found in accepting your imperfections]] - [[Perfection is overrated]] - [[Perfectionism is a state of mind]] - [[Perfectionism is fear in fancy footwear and we ain’t got the money, honey. Ship it]] - [[Perfectionism is the illusion that all details matter equally]] - [[Perfectionism is when the subscouscious overevalues the unimportant subtasks in order to postpone task completion and hence the verification of our performance]] - [[Persistence beats timing. Execution beats luck. Not immediately, but eventually]] - [[Personality is how you seem. Character is how you are]] - [[Perspective is the art of observing the world from outside of yourself]] - [[Pessimists vs Optimists vs Engineers]] - [[Pick one notes app, and keep it for long enough to reap the benefits]] - [[Plan in decades, live in moments]] - [[Pobody's nerfect]] - [[Point of view is worth 80 IQ points]] - [[Positive emotions are the active ingredient enabling resilience]] - [[Possessions can disappear in an instant, but nobody can ever take away what’s in your mind]] - [[Poverty isn’t having too little. It’s wanting more]] - [[Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true]] - [[Powerful emotions compel people to be genuine and real. They engage people with the world around them]] - [[Practice makes perfect]] - [[Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it]] - [[Primary emotions are basic and inviolable, just like the primary colors]] - [[Principles are higher than techniques. Principles produce techniques in an instant]] - [[Problems shrink when you approach them and expand when you move away from them]] - [[Procedure is the how. Process is the what]] - [[Processes are the source code of systems]] - [[Procrastination creates negative momentum. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to start. Telling yourself you'll do it tomorrow is how dreams die]] - [[Productivity thrives on simplicity]] - [[Programming isn't about what you know. It's about what you can figure out]] - [[Progress and knowledge show no fear]] - [[Progressive summarization is really a mindful technique. It's a practice for fine-tuning your intuition and self-awareness]] - [[Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate]] - [[Pursuing your curiosity is the transition from a life of doing what others tell you to doing what you enjoy]] - [[Put your mind in an environment – physical or digital – where it is near forced to expand]] - [[Put your work in front of others even when it's not done, not perfect]] - [[Putting your thoughts into concrete words and using the psychomotor skill of writing help you to learn]] - [[Quand tu n'as qu'une vie à vivre, c'est ce qui la rend unique]] - [[Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit]] - [[Quit looking back. That's not the direction you're going]] - [[Reaching the end of a project isn’t just about crossing the finish line, it’s about integrating it into the bigger picture of your knowledge management system]] - [[Read the literature, but don't read too much of it]] - [[Read to fill your mind, write to clear your mind]] - [[Reading a book isn’t a race. The better the book, the slower it should be absorbed]] - [[Reading brings us unknown friends]] - [[Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are]] - [[Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own]] - [[Reality is just an agreed upon illusion]] - [[Reciprocity is what happens when you give freely so much and so often that others can't help giving back. Share, teach, empower, and lift up others. When it comes back around, you'll receive support that you never dreamt of]] - [[Redesigning your personal website is inversely correlated with you ever writing another blog post]] - [[Relationships are like electric currents, wrong connections will give you shocks throughout your life, but the right ones will light up your life]] - [[Remember that work deadlines are created by people. They can always be pushed back]] - [[Remember the true purpose of notes. They are not just to remember, but to think. They are not just to store, but to connect. They are not just to capture, but to create]] - [[Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet]] - [[Renewal is what happens when you realize that some of this stuff you’ve been carrying around doesn’t matter]] - [[Repetition is good. It’s useful to repeat yourself. If you say the same thing multiple times, people remember it better]] - [[Resilience is a forced response to distress, not another nifty workplace skill]] - [[Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work]] - [[Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it]] - [[Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love]] - [[Respect yourself and others will respect you]] - [[Responsibility is the price of greatness]] - [[Resting is a productivity technique. It’s conserving energy for something worthwhile when it happens]] - [[Réussir, ce n'est pas toujours ce qu'on croit]] - [[Reward efforts, not outcomes]] - [[Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing]] - [[Sales in mass is marketing]] - [[Save now, read later. This way, you prioritize truly valuable content over the momentary impulse to consume]] - [[Say hello to what worries you, but don't stop to chat]] - [[Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to things and people that stress you out]] - [[Science is not a system of self-evident truths. It is a passionate search for truth]] - [[Self knowledge is the best knowledge]] - [[Self knowledge is the root of maturity]] - [[Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not]] - [[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is]] - [[Sell the problem you solve, not the product you make]] - [[Sell what you know and see what sticks]] - [[Sensible people get paid for doing what they enjoy doing]] - [[Set ambitious goals, but allow yourself a limited number of emergency passes when you slip up]] - [[Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it]] - [[Setting high level direction is far superior to specific outcomes]] - [[Shallow people value others depending on their appearances and then question why they lack genuine people in their lives]] - [[Sharing my knowledge with you does not make me less powerful. It makes us more powerful, together]] - [[Sharing your goals and challenges with people who follow the same path is truly valuable and helpful]] - [[Si on travaille pour gagner sa vie, pourquoi se tuer au travail]] - [[Si vous vivez votre vie selon le regard des autres, vous ne vivrez jamais votre vie]] - [[Sickness is an impediment to the body but not to the will unless the will wants to be impeded]] - [[Silence isn't empty. It's full of answers]] - [[Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior]] - [[Simplicity boils down to two steps. Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest]] - [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]] - [[Simplicity sells, complexity fails]] - [[Since no one understands the system any more, no one can stop it]] - [[Slow is smooth and smooth is fast]] - [[Small things add up]] - [[Smart people talking to other smart people tend to have very short conversations]] - [[Software-as-a-Service doesn't have a final version. It only gets closer to being its most useful version yet]] - [[Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine]] - [[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested]] - [[Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has every known me]] - [[Some day you will find out that therer is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own]] - [[Some folks are so concerned with looking smart that they lose all curiosity and miss opportunities to learn]] - [[Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted]] - [[Some of the most creative and productive people I have ever met work in multi-week bursts and then have weeks where they just idle with little done. It’s the nature of the human animal]] - [[Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story]] - [[Some people are so poor all they have is money]] - [[Some people around us will not understand our journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them]] - [[Some people won't love you no matter what you do, and some people won't stop loving you no matter what you do. Go where the love is]] - [[Some pivots are sudden born of formative instants. Other song slow arcs. With these the changing direction becomes clear only when you check your rear-view mirror or raise Your Eyes To See a different vista stretching out in front of you]] - [[Something cannot emerge from nothing]] - [[Sometimes in life, you have to make tough decisions. even it's not the most popular decision. Many won't because it's tough. But at the end of the day, you have to do what you feel right despite what everyone thinks]] - [[Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect]] - [[Sometimes rest is the highest leverage action]] - [[Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say 'this is bullshit!'' but I can never remember what 'this' refers to]] - [[Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than ever before, so that you can stand up taller than you ever were before]] - [[Sometimes you have to stop staring at your problems and start seeing how beautiful life really is]] - [[Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near]] - [[Sometimes you need patience in order to find true happiness. It won't come fast and it won't come easy, but it'll be worth it]] - [[Sometimes you need to give yourself a break when you’ve had a lot of life change]] - [[Sometimes, knowing when to say no is as powerful as knowing when to say yes]] - [[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known]] - [[Start every day with a new hope, leave bad memories behind, and have faith for a better tomorrow]] - [[Start now]] - [[Status derives value from some source of scarcity]] - [[Staying calm in a situation that used to stress you out is a powerful sign of growth]] - [[Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible, and spend the majority of your time, and resources, building something your customers are willing to pay for]] - [[Stockpiling information is the base. Reflecting upon it is the journey. Creating something new from it is the destination]] - [[Stop buying your kids what you never had and start teaching them what you never knew]] - [[Stop deliberating, stop planning and just act]] - [[Stop hating yourself for everything you aren't. Start loving yourself for everything that you are]] - [[Stop waiting for someone to give you permission. Just start building]] - [[Stop wandering about]] - [[Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world]] - [[Study not to know more, but to know better]] - [[Study physics, mathematics, computers, microeconomics, game theory, and persuasion]] - [[Study the science of art. Study the art of Science. Develop your senses. Especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else]] - [[Success comes to those who don't stop]] - [[Success is demanding but it is worth it. You have to want to succeed]] - [[Success, without fulfilment, is the ultimate failure]] - [[Successful founders have a bias towards action]] - [[Successful people choose their battles]] - [[Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better]] - [[Successful people do what unsuccessful people won't]] - [[Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily]] - [[Suffering is optional. Do not strive and you will avoid excess pain. It is the acceptance of suffering that enables its transcendence]] - [[Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher]] - [[Surround yourself with positive people who will support you when it rains, not just when it shines]] - [[Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers. But most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself]] - [[Take risks. If you win you'll be happy. If you lose, you'll be wiser]] - [[Take small bites every day]] - [[Take vacations not to escape, but to think undistracted]] - [[Take your work more seriously. Take yourself less seriously]] - [[Taking notes is like investing in your future self. Every time you take a note, you’re creating an asset that will grow and compound for years to come]] - [[Taking notes is like investing in your future self]] - [[Taking notes takes time, but not taking notes is losing your time]] - [[Talent and potential mean nothing if you can’t consistently do things when you don’t feel like doing them]] - [[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see]] - [[Teach your children early what you learned late]] - [[Teach your children that not knowing something is not a bad thing, it is an opportunity to learn something]] - [[Technology is neither good nor bad. Nor is it neutral]] - [[Technology vs age]] - [[Tell me, and I forget, teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and I learn]] - [[Ten commandments of War propaganda]] - [[TEST2]] - [[The 'trick' to motivating a team is to do nothing that de-motivates them. Stopping trying to lead them helps]] - [[The absence of limitations is the enemy of art]] - [[The act of knowing is an act of commitment. We are not merely passive observers of the world; we are active participants in its creation. We choose what we will pay attention to, and in doing so, we give meaning to the world]] - [[The act of knowing is an act of commitment]] - [[The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better]] - [[The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook]] - [[The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore]] - [[The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe]] - [[The ascent is optional, the descent mandatory]] - [[The average person's workload no longer fits within an average human brain. Unless you expand that capacity, you'll have to either drastically limit your ambitions, or destroy your peace of mind trying to fit it in anyway]] - [[The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot]] - [[The beauty of the internet is the entire library of Alexandria times 10 is at your fingertips at all times]] - [[The best decisions have little to no immediate payoff. The best choices compound. Most of the benefits come at the end, not the beginning. The more patient you are, the bigger the payoff]] - [[The best fighter is never angry]] - [[The best jobs to have are those you can't apply for]] - [[The best organizational systems aren't just comprehensive; they're actionable]] - [[The best talent has proof of work, not memorisation]] - [[The best teacher is a good book]] - [[The best thing to hold onto in life is each other]] - [[The best thing you can do to get ahead in life is to realize you’re not special and to learn how to deal with all the uncertainty life throws at you]] - [[The best way to learn something new is to connect it to something old]] - [[The best way to predict the future is to invent it]] - [[The best way to turn your dreams into reality is to wake up]] - [[The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better]] - [[The better your system for saving and searching through ideas, the more deliberately you can develop your own over time]] - [[The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work]] - [[The bigger the ambition, the slower you need to go]] - [[The bigger the outcome, the more likely small things compounded to make it happen over time]] - [[The biggest generator of long-term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them. If you let excuses or emotions drive behavior, you’re cheating your future self. Put aside the excuses and start doing what you need to do]] - [[The biggest risk is taking no risks at all]] - [[The book is to be read in silence by the reader, and it's written in silence by me. I don't need to know what it sounds like out loud. I need to know what it reads like]] - [[The brain deceives us, feelings deceives us, people deceives us and even we deceive ourselves]] - [[The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity]] - [[The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before]] - [[The conditions for success don't create winners. Winners create the conditions for success. They take what they're given and make the most out of it]] - [[The cost of failure is as close to zero as it's ever been in the history of the world]] - [[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity]] - [[The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results]] - [[The devil is in the details]] - [[The difference between an employee and an entrepreneur is control over your potential]] - [[The difference between obstacles and opportunities is our attitude]] - [[The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything]] - [[The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do]] - [[The entrepreneurs who end up succeeding are those who didn't give up. This doesn't mean they were stubborn. No, they adapted, they pivoted, they experimented. But they kept going]] - [[The fact that some choice is good doesn’t necessarily mean that more choice is better]] - [[The fastest way to demotivate a good employee is to allow them to watch you tolerate a bad one]] - [[The first and best victory is to conquer self]] - [[The first draft is just you telling yourself the story]] - [[The first principle is that you must not fool yourself. And you are the easiest person to fool]] - [[The first rule of compounding. Never interrupt it unnecessarily]] - [[The formula for failure is a few small errors consistently repeated]] - [[The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it]] - [[The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet]] - [[The future is a maybe, a contingency, a what if]] - [[The future is a sucker's bet]] - [[The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed]] - [[The future is gonna be exciting because I will be there]] - [[The future of work is spending more time with family]] - [[The goal is not to take notes. The goal is to think effectively]] - [[The goal isn't passive income. The goal is active income doing what you like]] - [[The goal isn't to be free from stress, but to be unaffected by stress and channel it in a desired way]] - [[The goal of Personal Knowledge Management is to get good at life. Not to get good at Personal Knowledge Management]] - [[The graveyard is full of 'irreplaceable' and 'important' people]] - [[The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge]] - [[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness]] - [[The greatest lie we tell ourselves is I have time]] - [[The greatest trap is telling yourself that you’ll do something important tomorrow]] - [[The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak]] - [[The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all]] - [[The habitus is not only a structuring structure, which organizes practices and the perception of practices, but also a structured structure]] - [[The hallmark of independent thinking is disbelief in the fashionable religions of the day]] - [[The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have]] - [[The hard part is not picking a word, the hard part is correctly understanding what the thing is you are trying to name]] - [[The higher levels of human achievement are not simply the sum of the lower levels. They represent a new emergent order that cannot be reduced to its component parts]] - [[The higher you climb, the more important it is to stay humble. Stay teachable, stay curious, stay approachable, don't be overconfident, take valid criticism seriously, acknowledge and analyze failures, listen]] - [[The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, I can do whatever I want today]] - [[The highest status people in human history are those that asked for nothing and gave everything]] - [[The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world]] - [[The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way]] - [[The joy of leadership comes from seeing others achieve more than they thought they were capable of]] - [[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you]] - [[The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts]] - [[The key to great writing is ordinary words and simple sentences]] - [[The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one]] - [[The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing]] - [[The key to success is to ask for what you want]] - [[The knowledge of every brilliant mind, influential leader, and best-selling author is just a click away on the internet]] - [[The lack of clarity in our goals is leading to the demise of our souls]] - [[The last impression is the lasting impression]] - [[The longer you go without something and the more comfortable you become with its absence]] - [[The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding]] - [[The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing]] - [[The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life]] - [[The map is not the territory]] - [[The meaning of life is following locally, wherever the gradient descent takes you]] - [[The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away]] - [[The minute you convince yourself you could have done better without a margin of safety is exactly when you need it most]] - [[The misery comes from within. The happiness comes from without]] - [[The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever]] - [[The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance]] - [[The moment you’re aware that you’re happy, you no longer are]] - [[The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes]] - [[The more experience you have with note-taking, note-taking and PKM, and the leaner your toolkit is]] - [[The more one judges, the less one loves]] - [[The more precisely you define the problem, the more easily you can find a solution]] - [[The more sarcastic you are, the more healthy your mind is]] - [[The more we look back, wondering what might have been, the less we are living for today]] - [[The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them]] - [[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart]] - [[The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood]] - [[The most dangerous thing is not making enough money. It's spending the money you have on the wrong things]] - [[The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood]] - [[The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn]] - [[The most important story is the one you tell yourself. Telling yourself a positive story won’t always turn it into reality, but telling yourself a negative one often does]] - [[The most important thing in life is to find your gift. The most important thing in life is to be true to that gift, and to do it every day for the rest of your life]] - [[The most powerful life hack is to be kind to people]] - [[The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller]] - [[The most successful people have the highest standards, not only for others but for themselves]] - [[The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifference. However vast the darkness we must supply our own light]] - [[The notes themselves aren't important, but rather the process of physically writing the notes, internalizing the information, and building new connections in your head is quite important]] - [[The number of people who'll believe some crazy thing never goes all the way to zero]] - [[The obstacle on the path becomes the way]] - [[The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything]] - [[The older you get, the more you realize that it isn't about the material things, or pride or ego. It's about our hearts and who they beat for]] - [[The oldest and strongest emotion is fear. And the most ancient and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown]] - [[The one change that has improved my life the most has been to increasingly replace my opinions with curiosity]] - [[The only constant is change]] - [[The only people who change the world are those crazy enough to believe they can]] - [[The only real shortcut is not taking shortcuts]] - [[The only thing harder than starting a startup is shutting one down]] - [[The only thing stopping you, are your limiting beliefs. The further you push into the unknown, the more you discover what is possible]] - [[The only thing we have to fear is fear itself]] - [[The only way to find out if it will work out, is to do it]] - [[The over scheduled life is not worth living]] - [[The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge]] - [[The pain of failing to try is less intense but never really goes away]] - [[The past is your friend. Focus on how it helps you go from here]] - [[The Peace of Wild Things]] - [[The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do]] - [[The people who criticize the most, create the least]] - [[The personal coefficient is the coefficient of passion]] - [[The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits]] - [[The point of notetaking is not about taking notes. It’s about capturing thoughts that make the effort of reviewing and revisiting them exciting]] - [[The point of practice is to cause you to do the right thing by habit, without having to think about it consciously. That's why it's worthwhile practicing things you already know how to do]] - [[The possession of anything begins in the mind]] - [[The power of having dreams is that they enable us to leave behind a legacy and impact others with our vision]] - [[The price of productivity is creativity]] - [[The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught]] - [[The problem with genius is that you have to tolerate madness]] - [[The problem with having problems is that someone always has it worse]] - [[The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence]] - [[The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge]] - [[The purpose of wealth is freedom]] - [[The pursuit of knowledge is not a matter of acquiring information, but of understanding the world around us]] - [[The quality of your mind is the quality of your life]] - [[The question isn't who is going to let me. It's who is going to stop me]] - [[The quicker you want something, the easier you are to manipulate]] - [[The quickest fix is the longest path]] - [[The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear]] - [[The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers]] - [[The response to losses is stronger than the response to gains]] - [[The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become]] - [[The rich have money but only the wealthy have time]] - [[The root of being human is learning how to think]] - [[The root of suffering is attachment]] - [[The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new]] - [[The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new]] - [[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure, instead of having pain and pleasure use you]] - [[The secret to effective results is turning acquired knowledge into default behavior. Habits, routines, and rules all turn knowledge into sustained action]] - [[The secret to happiness is low expectations]] - [[The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone]] - [[The secret to success is being comfortable with looking completely clueless as a beginner]] - [[The smarter you get, the smaller your group becomes]] - [[The struggle is the work]] - [[The success formula. Solve your own problems and freely share the solutions]] - [[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently]] - [[The things you run from are inside you]] - [[The time I kill is killing me]] - [[The time is always right to do what is right]] - [[The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it]] - [[The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score]] - [[The true price of anything is the amount of time you exchange for it]] - [[The true test of knowledge isn't how much you have, but how you use it. A library of ideas is wasted if they never leave the shelf]] - [[The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom]] - [[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time]] - [[The ultimate goal of education is not just to acquire knowledge, but to use that knowledge to make a positive impact on the world. Take on the roles of both student and teacher to do just that. Learning for learning's sake is folly]] - [[The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself]] - [[The ultimate resource is resourcefulness]] - [[The unknown is where ideas are growing]] - [[The value of boring]] - [[The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first]] - [[The way to figure out what to work on is by working. If you're not sure what to work on, guess. But pick something and get going]] - [[The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them]] - [[The way we think colors our view of the world]] - [[The way you look at something changes your perspective]] - [[The wealth of information means a dearth of something else]] - [[The weekly review is the master key to your productivity]] - [[The wise have always said the same things. And fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite]] - [[The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time]] - [[The work that we find most fulfilling is almost always a recreation and extension of youthful play]] - [[The world is full of good people. If you can't find one, be one]] - [[The world is full of solutions looking for a problem]] - [[The world is not a given. It is a creation]] - [[The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments. To a tree, there is no concept of right or wrong, good or bad]] - [[The worse thing you can do is wait for it to be perfect]] - [[The written word is the strongest source of power in the entire universe]] - [[The Zettelkasten is a tool to outsource memory, but also to enhance that fortuitous forgetfulness that leads to future productive re-encounters]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt on success and failure]] - [[There are 3 options for when to consume content]] - [[There are known knowns and there are known unknowns and there are also unknown unknowns; Things that we don't know that we don't know]] - [[There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present]] - [[There are no rigid disciplines in the universe, only concepts]] - [[There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job.']] - [[There are no wrong answers in architecture, only expensive ones]] - [[There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't]] - [[There are only two kinds of people in the world. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.]] - [[There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth]] - [[There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring. Impatience and Laziness]] - [[There are two kinds of people who give feedback. Those who will pick at every detail and are harbouring jealously, and those who want to help you improve your product]] - [[There are two types of people. Those who are uncomfortable with their own ignorance, and those who aim to understand]] - [[There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will]] - [[There is a crack in everything. That's where the light comes in]] - [[There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists]] - [[There is great beauty in little things]] - [[There is no deed in life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed]] - [[There is no free lunch]] - [[There is no friend as loyal as a book]] - [[There is no plan that survives contact with reality]] - [[There is no point in being around people who make you miserable]] - [[There is no remedy for love but to love more]] - [[There is no substitute for knowledge]] - [[There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower]] - [[There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking]] - [[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self]] - [[There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed]] - [[There is only one way to happiness. Stop worrying about things you cannot control]] - [[There is only so much you can achieve by yourself. To really make great things you need a team. Always know that the team is greater than yourself]] - [[There is power in steadiness and repetition]] - [[There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither]] - [[There will always be a place for big projects, but the fabric of good neighborhoods, towns, and cities is woven by small people doing small things]] - [[There will always be reasons to do nothing and talk yourself out of moving forward in life]] - [[There will be many times when you are tested, and when you take the right track, you will often not be recognised or even appreciated]] - [[There's a big gap between knowing something and acting based on what we know]] - [[There's nothing more practical than a good theory]] - [[There's zero point in climbing a mountain if you forget to enjoy the view]] - [[There’s no miracle people. It just happens they got interested in this thing and they learned all this stuff. There’s just people]] - [[There’s no real way to achieve the kind of relaxed control I’m promising if you keep things only in your head]] - [[These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others]] - [[Things don’t have to change the world to be important]] - [[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least]] - [[Think about the positives in your life as soon as you wake up. You may have a long day ahead, but positive thinking will set you straight]] - [[Think durable, not disposable]] - [[Think first, code second]] - [[Think like you're rich. Work like you're poor]] - [[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy]] - [[Think slow. Act fast]] - [[Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge]] - [[Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake]] - [[This could be the last time you do something]] - [[This is not a knowledge file cabinet. This is a knowledge cocktail party. It should be socializing with other knowledge, bumping into each other chatting each other up, and finding new connections]] - [[This is the pain of creation. You sit as a conduit between the possible and the doable]] - [[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending]] - [[Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!]] - [[Time and patience are the strongest warriors]] - [[Time passing does nothing. It's what we do in that time that matters]] - [[Time spent undistracted and alone resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit]] - [[Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time]] - [[Time-saving, money-saving, and money-making solutions are always in demand]] - [[Titles don't make leaders, actions do]] - [[To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing]] - [[To be alive is to know ghosts]] - [[To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself]] - [[To be free is not just to cast off one's own chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others]] - [[To compare yourself means to hurt yourself]] - [[To curate is to create]] - [[To earn the respect of others, first learn to respect your own self]] - [[To heal a wound you must stop scratching it]] - [[To know that you know what you know and to know that you know what you don't know, is true knowledge]] - [[To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge]] - [[To learn fast, teach others]] - [[To learn is not to know. There are the learners, and there are the learned. Memory makes one, philosophy the other]] - [[To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong]] - [[To live alone is the fate of all great souls]] - [[To love, we need to be sensitive to those around us, which is impossible if we are always racing through life engrossed in all the things we need to do before sunset]] - [[To observe attentively is to remember distinctly]] - [[To predict a person's behavior, study their incentives. To control a person's behavior, set their incentives. Not true for the best people]] - [[To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves]] - [[To think, in an unbroken, deep, way, with no outside inputs, analog is the best way to go]] - [[To whom much is given, much will be required]] - [[To write a great book, you must first become the book]] - [[To write is to love life]] - [[To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man]] - [[Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perception, not outside]] - [[Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want]] - [[Too many people bring the best of themselves to work, and bring the leftovers home]] - [[Too much skepticism leads to cynicism]] - [[Tools are extensions of our mind. The work is done by the mind, not by the tool]] - [[Tout a une fin. Sauf la banane, qui en a deux]] - [[Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first]] - [[Treasure your relationships, not your possessions]] - [[Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value]] - [[Try to be friendly to everyone today. Spend the whole day without complaining, judging or making excuses. Notice how your mood changes]] - [[Twitter is the only social network that connects people over ideas rather than over pre-existing relationships]] - [[Twitter's network effect is insanely strong - realtime, asynchronous (robust to outages), across real-world social boundaries]] - [[Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything]] - [[Unclear goals, not a busy schedule, are what really hold you back]] - [[Understand. Don't memorize. Learn principles, not formulas]] - [[Understanding comes in naturally. Speaking comes out naturally. Reading comes in naturally. Writing comes out through study]] - [[Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is]] - [[Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments]] - [[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth]] - [[Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate]] - [[Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects. But let us once try whether we do not get further by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition]] - [[Upon the gifted among the misfits lies the burden of building new worlds]] - [[Use money to make time, don't waste your time to make money]] - [[Useful writing tells people something true and important that they didn't already know, and tells them as unequivocally as possible]] - [[Using your brain as a memory stick will disrupt your focus]] - [[Value is that which one acts to gain and keep]] - [[Values are the why, beliefs are the how]] - [[Verba volant, scripta manent]] - [[Victory belongs to the most tenacious]] - [[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent]] - [[Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are]] - [[War is a place where young people who don't know each other and don't hate each other kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other and hate each other, but don't kill each other]] - [[Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions]] - [[Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions]] - [[We all have to deal with the world as it is, not as we want it to be]] - [[We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one]] - [[We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future]] - [[We are always becoming, and never are]] - [[We are at the very beginning of time for the human race]] - [[We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom]] - [[We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to write]] - [[We are more than the sum of our intentions]] - [[We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun]] - [[We are surrounded by modern, time-saving devices, but we never seem to have enough time]] - [[We are the owners of the stories we never tell]] - [[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be]] - [[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit]] - [[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit]] - [[We become addicted to things we love]] - [[We can be very good at talking ourselves out of our dreams. Don’t underestimate your creativity. Even if the path forward is unclear, start experimenting. You’ll figure it out along the way. Or figure out that it was the wrong dream]] - [[We can know more than we can tell]] - [[We can't escape the prison that our mind sometimes feels like. 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We write them down to forget]] - [[We fear more in imagination than reality]] - [[We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn’t satisfy us to the degree that we expect]] - [[We have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison]] - [[We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgements]] - [[We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying]] - [[We learn by doing]] - [[We like to say that we don’t get to choose our parents, that they were given by chance—yet we can truly choose whose children we’d like to be]] - [[We make our decisions, and then our decisions make us]] - [[We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. Love is the only way]] - [[We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause]] - [[We need to be at or above a ratio of 3 to 1 positive to negative emotions for our brain to function at its best]] - [[We need to understand how our minds work so we can work our minds better]] - [[We often refrain from sharing what we learn because we don't feel we're ready. 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I have begun to be a friend to myself]] - [[What repeats will be recorded]] - [[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise]] - [[What some see as bragging may be seen as inspiration by others]] - [[What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while]] - [[What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do]] - [[What we learn with pleasure, we never forget]] - [[What we lost in the fire we'll find in the ashes]] - [[What we need are few. What we want are many]] - [[What we need most in life is someone who will make us do what we are capable of]] - [[What we think we become]] - [[What we think, we become]] - [[What you choose to work on, and who you choose to work with, are far more important than how hard you work]] - [[What you really want is clear, on the other side of fear]] - [[What you're not changing you're choosing]] - [[What's not negotiable today may be negotiable tomorrow]] - [[What's the point of gathering knowledge if it doesn't have any impact on anyone else. Move beyond information hoarding and start sharing your ideas with the world]] - [[Whatever happens, happens. You can either fight it or accept it. Better to invest energy into changing the future instead of wasting it trying to change the past. Reframing is everything]] - [[Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality]] - [[Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive]] - [[Whatever you focus on, you're going to feel]] - [[When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure]] - [[When anger arises, think of the consequences]] - [[When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is the one you can’t put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you’d do for free]] - [[When giving your wife or kids a kiss, repeat to yourself, I am kissing a mortal]] - [[When good things start happening, more good things happen, which cause the first to continue happening]] - [[When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid]] - [[When I give you my time, I'm giving you a portion of my life that I will never get back. Please don't make me regret it]] - [[When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive]] - [[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps]] - [[When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile and laugh. Stay strong]] - [[When people are placed in positions slightly above what they except, they are apt to excel]] - [[When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. 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We merely repeat his mental process]] - [[When we write something down (physically or digitally) we are converting a thought about the world from our brains into material which can be interacted with, both later by ourselves and by others]] - [[When you are consumed by thoughts, write. When you are uninspired, read]] - [[When you are in your own lane there is no traffic]] - [[When you build a community digital garden you are building a mini searchable powerhouse for your niche and you can become the first place that people go to search for information]] - [[When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change]] - [[When you choose who to follow on Twitter, you are choosing your future thoughts]] - [[When you die you are not there anymore to experience the nothingness that you often picture death to be like]] - [[When you do something out of love, you don't count the cost]] - [[When you face anxiety, figure out why you are afraid of and what it means. 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Especially whenever our affairs seem to be in crisis, we are almost compelled to give our first attention to the urgent present rather than to the important future]] - [[Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes]] - [[Why didn't the div get invited to the dinner party. Because it had no class!]] - [[Why do astronauts use Linux. BECAUSE YOU CAN’T OPEN WINDOWS IN SPACE]] - [[Why does being remembered matters at all]] - [[Why settle for being informed when you can be wise]] - [[Winners who come from behind, are winners nonetheless]] - [[Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is]] - [[Wisdom begins at the end]] - [[Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have]] - [[Wisdom is turning your future hindsight into your current foresight]] - [[Wise people know it's impossible to be perfect. 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Edit tomorrow]] - [[Write what you know]] - [[Writers are people who hate to write]] - [[Writers die twice—when they breathe their last breath, and when they cease being read]] - [[Writing about a decision forces you to put words to your blind spots, causing you to confront reality and see where you don't fully understand the process behind your decision]] - [[Writing code is the easiest part of being a software developer]] - [[Writing help channeling your thoughts. It brings clarity where the mind alone may struggle]] - [[Writing improves your thinking because words on the page have infinite patience. To write is to freeze an idea so you can play around with it, step away from it, and see it with fresh eyes. Hard to do that with the ideas in your head]] - [[Writing is a way of finding out. Finding out what to think, and what to build]] - [[Writing is a way of finding out. 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