# Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote OR #type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote OR #type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[‘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 bad system will beat a good person every time]] - [[A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought]] - [[A book goes from a graph of information to a linear form. Knowledge Management goes in the opposite direction, from linear to a graph form]] - [[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 cynic is never wrong, but an optimist is always right]] - [[A disciplined mind brings happiness]] - [[A fantastic goal without a fantastic plan is a fantastic fantasy]] - [[A few time blocks a day keep the stressful times away]] - [[A flexible schedule is real wealth]] - [[A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius]] - [[A friend gives you total freedom to be yourself]] - [[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials]] - [[A genius is the one most like himself]] - [[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 good day starts with clarity and predictability, not distractions and confusion]] - [[A good idea or your new skill is sterile unless you don't know how to communicate it]] - [[A good media business is built on trust]] - [[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving]] - [[A great artist with a bad system can be beaten by a mediocre artist with a good one]] - [[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 journal is a great starting point for PKM]] - [[A journey a thousand miles starts with a single step]] - [[A key to live a happier life is to realize that no matter how hard we try, there is actually very little that we can control or influence. And what we can't control or influence, we should not worry too much about, and accept]] - [[A landing page is a salesperson who never sleeps]] - [[A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth]] - [[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 little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference]] - [[A long document is like an entire body, it contains many things, and it's hard to describe or explain. An atomic note is like a very small part of the body. It's much easier to describe and explain]] - [[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 lot of things can happen between now and never]] - [[A lot of things that appear impossible, become very doable with the right persistence. If we think something is impossible, we forbid ourselves from even trying]] - [[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 but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes]] - [[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 new piece of content (as opposed to atomic notes) is like a snapshot of a set of ideas in your knowledge base at a specific point in time]] - [[A note is an action potential]] - [[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read]] - [[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 system is one you can actually trust with important memories, ideas, insights, information, knowledge, and wisdom]] - [[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 startup with revenue has 100 problems. A startup without revenue just has one]] - [[A story is a bazooka , whereas an analogy, metaphor is a handgun]] - [[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 vision is like a dream. It will disappear unless we do something with it]] - [[A year from now you will wish you had started today]] - [[A year from now, you will wish you had started today]] - [[Abstraction is the key to generalization]] - [[Accept failure but never stop trying]] - [[Acknowledge your mistakes, don't fear them]] - [[Act and be like a lake that reflects the sky and has no doubts]] - [[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]] - [[Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion]] - [[Agility is really about embracing change as a constant and positive thing]] - [[Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been]] - [[AI agents are only as good as the knowledge systems they operate on]] - [[AI makes you efficient at being average. PKM makes you efficient at being exceptional. Don't let AI turn you into an NPC]] - [[AI reduces entropy. Everyone is turning into AI, prompt and context engineering experts. The world is becoming more boring]] - [[AI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't]] - [[AI won't fix your organization and productivity problems. It has the answers but no access to the levers. Only you do]] - [[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 code is transient. Never get too attached. Never hesitate to rework or better yet, remove code]] - [[All conditioning aims at making people like their unescapable social destiny]] - [[All great headlines take time]] - [[All happiness depends on courage and work]] - [[All ideas are mashups of old ideas. Pure novelty is ultra rare]] - [[All it takes for bad people to win, is for good people to do nothing]] - [[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 models are wrong, but some are useful]] - [[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 of my best decisions, in business and in life, have been made with heart, intuition, guts. Not analysis]] - [[All of your dreams are on the other side of pain and difficulty]] - [[All past events are just steps of your personal legend]] - [[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 happens means something. Nothing you do is ever insignificant]] - [[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 genius I have lies in studying a subject profoundly]] - [[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 know what you want. Do the work. Dreams are not free]] - [[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 pay it forward. And don't keep count]] - [[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]] - [[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye]] - [[And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music]] - [[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]] - [[Anything that can go wrong will go wrong]] - [[Anything that keeps stuff out of the head because it has captured it and is trusted to remind appropriately, is GTD]] - [[Anytime you resist perfection and share your work, no matter the feedback, you advance in some way]] - [[Appear as you are, be as you appear]] - [[Appreciate what you have, before it turns into what you had]] - [[Après le pain, l'éducation est le premier besoin d'un peuple]] - [[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 knowledge worker, you need systems to learn, think, plan, track, and do]] - [[As a leader, if you lose it everyone loses it]] - [[As a lifelong learner, entrepreneurship is like a drug. There's a never-ending list of skills to acquire, and new things to learn]] - [[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 we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way]] - [[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]] - [[Assembling is creating. All ideas are associations]] - [[Assumption is the enemy of empathy]] - [[At best, an air gap is a high-latency connection]] - [[At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again]] - [[At the end of the day, you are a combination of your habits and the people who you spend the most time with]] - [[At the end of the day, your level of clarity, priorities, focus, and approach will impact your productivity in much more profound ways than all the tool hopping and tweaking in the world ever could]] - [[At time we crack, only to let the light in]] - [[Atomic notes and linking are the basis of powerful knowledge bases]] - [[Atomic notes are inherently flexible. By distilling information into its most basic, standalone elements, each note becomes a building block that can easily be reorganized, linked, or expanded]] - [[Atomic notes are like functions in code]] - [[Atomic notes are like LEGO blocks. Reusable, and composable]] - [[Atomic notes help build much more valuable Knowledge Graphs where ideas are interconnected. It doesn't matter if one specific idea evolves or disappears. The whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts]] - [[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 considering your notes as final. Write Evergreen Notes]] - [[Avoid falling into the trap of focusing too much on the system, and too little on get value out of it]] - [[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 coping mechanisms for deeper issues]] - [[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 free like the wind, nothing stops you]] - [[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 open-minded and be willing to see things with new eyes, to test hypotheses like a scientist. Be open-minded]] - [[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 strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you]] - [[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 timeless, not timely]] - [[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]] - [[Begin each day as if it were on purpose]] - [[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 a writer is not a destination. It’s a journey]] - [[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 thinking makes you a better person. And writing is a great way to improve your thinking]] - [[Better to be king of your silence than slave of your words]] - [[Better to live life erring on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Be realistic, but, as Monty Python would say, always look on the bright side of life]] - [[Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom]] - [[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]] - [[Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster, for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you]] - [[Beware the barrenness of a busy life]] - [[Bias towards creating value, not doing work]] - [[Big persistence compensates for bad timing. Because if you stay at it long enough, it’ll eventually be the right time. And when it is, while everyone is trying to time it. You’ll have been ready for years]] - [[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]] - [[Blogs rely on pull. Newsletter rely on push]] - [[Boldness is a stronger indicator of success than intelligence]] - [[Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them]] - [[Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better]] - [[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]] - [[Boring is only for boring people with no imagination]] - [[Break the mountain, one grain of sand at a time]] - [[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]] - [[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 the habit first, then make it stick]] - [[Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs]] - [[Build your product based on evidence, not false beliefs]] - [[Builds roads for people to follow]] - [[Burnout is more of an issue of poor energy management and low clarity than of over-giving]] - [[Business is like a marathon. The longer you stick around, the less crowded it gets]] - [[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 starting from first principles, creating atomic notes, and thinking in systems, we can combine ideas and elaborate those to form more complex ones]] - [[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]] - [[Capture all the matches that could light a fire of new ideas]] - [[Capture your ideas and insights. Capture quickly if you have to. Capture messily if you have to. Capture anywhere if you have to]] - [[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]] - [[Categories are created at unlikely intersections]] - [[Celebrate all your wins. Don't wait for those big breakthroughs. The journey matters way more than you think]] - [[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 is often difficult, but vital for growth]] - [[Change what you're doing, to change where you're going]] - [[Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed]] - [[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]] - [[Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success]] - [[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk]] - [[Choice, not chance, determines your destiny]] - [[Choose a main focus for the day, and focus all your energy on that before trying to do anything else]] - [[Choose less and feel better]] - [[Choose the most powerful tool you at your disposal, that you can use simply without shooting yourself in the foot, and leverage more in the future]] - [[Choose the option that scares you. It's the path to growth]] - [[Choose tools that put you in control, not tools that control you]] - [[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 purpose is just the half of the battle. You still need to organize your work so that you can be productive and make progress towards your goal]] - [[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]] - [[Closing open loops is not just a question of task management, but a key practice for achieving mental clarity, and recovering peace of mind]] - [[Closing open loops, is not just about improving our efficiency. Above all else, it's about reclaiming mental space and peace of mind]] - [[Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions]] - [[Collections of local files can be pristine ecosystems for unique ideas to live]] - [[Comfort is a slow death]] - [[Communities aren't just built. They're grown, relationship by relationship]] - [[Companies don’t negotiate. People do]] - [[Comparing ourselves to others is the best way to suffer]] - [[Comparison is poison]] - [[Comparison is the death of joy]] - [[Comparison is the thief of joy]] - [[Compassion is the basis of morality]] - [[Competition is for losers]] - [[Complexity does not imply quality]] - [[Complexity is fractal. You only notice it when you get close enough to it]] - [[Complexity is simplicity waiting to be uncovered]] - [[Computers are like a bicycle for our minds]] - [[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]] - [[Connections between ideas are as valuable as the ideas themselves. Perhaps even more so]] - [[Conquer your mind, and you can have anything]] - [[Conquer yourself rather than the world]] - [[Consider Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) like investing in your future self. The value of your notes compounds]] - [[Consider regrouping information in as few places as possible in order to simplify your information landscape and your processes. In general, leaner is better]] - [[Consider tags as breadcrumbs. Leave enough to find your way]] - [[Consistency finishes what excitement starts]] - [[Consistency in note-taking and PKM is crucial for building a reliable and scalable knowledge base]] - [[Consistency is the hidden strength behind every success]] - [[Consistency matters a lot more than intensity when it comes to actual productivity]] - [[Consistency wins the race]] - [[Constant learning, growth, and expansion of your knowledge is critical to success. The moment you stop learning is the moment you stop growing. That's why Knowledge Management is so valuable]] - [[Consume information with a clear intent. What you consume should help you reach your goals]] - [[Consume less Reflect, apply, and implement more]] - [[Consuming low-quality information can be just as harmful as eating unhealthy food]] - [[Content is king]] - [[Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection]] - [[Contrary to long documents, atomic notes are concise, and focus on a single idea or concept]] - [[Contrary to popular belief, resilience isn't something that only a select few are born with]] - [[Control your emotions or they will control you]] - [[Conversational AIs are like babies with superhuman minds. They have many answers, but we have to find our way to those]] - [[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 doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow]] - [[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 stories for brands. Create maps for content. Create habits for products]] - [[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 content only seems pointless until compounding kicks in]] - [[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]] - [[Creativity isn't about waiting for the perfect idea, it's about capturing the sparks when they come. You don't need a masterpiece right away. You just need to start sketching]] - [[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 form of research]] - [[Curation is a way of story telling]] - [[Curiosity is a deep and powerful human drive. It pushes us to explore and grow]] - [[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]] - [[Data ownership trumps convenience when building systems for life]] - [[Day by day, what you do is who you become]] - [[Death is a deadline that forces you to make good decisions]] - [[Death makes us more aware of life and its beauty]] - [[Decide at the last responsible moment]] - [[Decide how your day is going to go, before your day decides for you]] - [[Deciding to start writing online is one thing, not giving up is another]] - [[Decisions are only the first step, the beginning of something new. Decisions open doors, but you still have to go through those to reach your destination]] - [[Decisions don't create change. Actions do]] - [[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 has two ways of crushing us. By refusing our wishes, and by fulfilling them]] - [[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]] - [[Developers spend more time reading code than writing it]] - [[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body]] - [[Discipline creates habits, habits, action and consistency creates results]] - [[Discipline equals freedom]] - [[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment]] - [[Disconnecting from people to reconnect with yourself and feel like you again is top tier self-care]] - [[Discover the trends, identify what is rising and what is going away. Don't dive deep too soon]] - [[Distinguish good pain from bad pain]] - [[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 the work needed to reach your goals. Dreams are not free]] - [[Do things from love, not ego, and not pride]] - [[Do things when you don't feel like doing them]] - [[Do today what others won't, so you can do tomorrow what others can't]] - [[Do what comes easy to you]] - [[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are]] - [[Documents are graveyards for ideas]] - [[Doing something well does not make it important]] - [[Doing something with enthusiasm, love and passion makes a world of difference]] - [[Doing the work is what makes you look like an overnight success ten years later]] - [[Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave]] - [[Doing what you love is exquisite. It's not work, it's passion]] - [[Don't abandon yourself to despair]] - [[Don't accept work you don't enjoy. If you do, you'll bring more your way]] - [[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 impatient about realizing your dreams or you might miss signs that could help you. Don't focus too much on the future. Just let it be. Come what may]] - [[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 consider journaling as one more task on you list (i.e., a chore) but as a support for thinking throughout the day, and a place you can capture interesting]] - [[Don't consider journaling as one more task on you list (i.e., a chore) but as a support for thinking throughout the day, and a place you can capture interesting and important things. Without that, it's bound to be messy and lossy]] - [[Don't count the days, make the days count]] - [[Don't dream about success, work hard for it]] - [[Don't dream about your projects. Make your projects a dream]] - [[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 failure. Fear inaction]] - [[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 fix depression. Fix your lifestyle]] - [[Don't focus on maximizing effort. Maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and health. Rest is crucial for sustainable productivity]] - [[Don’t focus on more than one desire at a time]] - [[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 have a leaky mind]] - [[Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant]] - [[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 shout your idea into the void. Repeat it until it’s heard]] - [[Don't just take a part of the pie. Make the pie bigger]] - [[Don't just think it. Ink it]] - [[Don't just use apps or combinations of apps because someone tells you to. Only consider using tools that really bring value to you. Remember that it's not about tools, it's about what they do for YOU]] - [[Don't kill what you hate say what you love]] - [[Don't know what the next step is. Take a break, and let your subconscious find the answer]] - [[Don’t let anybody ruin your day. Ruin it yourself]] - [[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 let yourself be controlled by three things. People, money, or past experiences]] - [[Don't let yourself get distracted. Keep following your path]] - [[Don't listen to the person who has the answers. Listen to the person who has the questions]] - [[Don't listen to what people say. Look at what they do]] - [[Don't live in denial. Deal with situations as they really are and not as you'd like them to be]] - [[Don't manage your time. Manage your attention]] - [[Don't mistake tools for systems]] - [[Don’t overthink choosing your tools, organization system and techniques. Introduce those if and when you need them. If you feel overwhelmed, then it may be that you have introduced too much complexity at once]] - [[Don't place all your money, all your trust, all your creativity or all your energy in a single endeavor. Diversify and try tiny projects instead]] - [[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 at the highest price they’ll pay. Sell at the highest price they’ll stick]] - [[Don't sell products. Sell stories]] - [[Don’t sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Dream, plan, execute]] - [[Don't spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it]] - [[Don't take yourself seriously, but take your work seriously]] - [[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 think about what you've left behind. The only way to learn is through action. If you want to learn, then act. Do]] - [[Don't trust words, trust actions]] - [[Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone]] - [[Don't try to be the best, be the only]] - [[Don't try to create the perfect knowledge management system. Start small, accept imperfection and focus on continuous improvement]] - [[Don't try to create the perfect knowledge management system. Start small, accept imperfection and focus on continuous improvement. Consider your notes, metadata, your whole system and process as a work in progress]] - [[Don't try to find the best design in software architecture. Instead, strive for the least worst combination of trade-offs]] - [[Don't underestimate the power of thinking about one sentence]] - [[Don't wait for an opportunity. Create it]] - [[Don't wait for permission to monetize your skills]] - [[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 trying to get people to love you. Spend your time with those who already do]] - [[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 work for your systems. Create ones that work for you]] - [[Don’t worry about creating the perfect system]] - [[Don't worry about failure. All you need is to be right once]] - [[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]] - [[Dreamers of the day are dangerous men]] - [[Dreams are lovely but they are dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change]] - [[Dreams are messages from the deep]] - [[Dreams mean work]] - [[Dreams without goals are just dreams. They just fuel disappointment]] - [[DRY is a guideline, not a rule]] - [[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]] - [[During interviews, the one who asks questions is the one in control. Do take the opportunities you have to ask questions]] - [[Each captured idea, assuming it is timely and valuable, is a long-term investment]] - [[Each individual, not society or religion, is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely, or authentically]] - [[Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most]] - [[Each note should capture a single idea clearly and concisely. Avoid the temptation of including multiple thoughts or tangents in one note. Instead, create separate notes and connect those together]] - [[Each of us has an ephemeral look at the world]] - [[Each step, no matter how small, counts]] - [[Each tag and link you add to a note adds a path to resurface that note later on]] - [[Each team is different with different standards and tech debt]] - [[Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all]] - [[Education doesn't imply wisdom]] - [[Education is a gift that shapes the future]] - [[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world]] - [[Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today]] - [[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 write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing]] - [[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]] - [[Elle avait des yeux où il faisait si bon vivre que je n'ai jamais su où aller depuis]] - [[Embody peace and confidence. Free yourself from doubts, anxiety and fear. Don't let your past or others decide what your own future should look like]] - [[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]] - [[Entrepreneurship is to carry an invisible burden, to sacrifice one's time, one's health, and sometimes even one's happiness, while the world only sees the result, never the exhaustion]] - [[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 day, born again. And I choose you, all over again]] - [[Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind]] - [[Every evolution of Personal Knowledge Management brings more freedom to connect and organize knowledge, ideas, and inspiration]] - [[Every great system starts with thoughtful design]] - [[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 point of friction is a reason you might stop using your system]] - [[Every process has inputs, outputs, and steps that lead to the outputs]] - [[Every reader finds himself]] - [[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 is going to use AI, that won't be a differentiator for long. But those who combine AI and Knowledge Management will have the edge]] - [[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 thinks they know how we should be living. They want us to conform and try to influence us consciously or not. But no one knows how life should be lived, whether it's their own or someone else's]] - [[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 who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference]] - [[Everyone's looking for an angle. The best one is 0 degrees. Just be straightforward]] - [[Everything can be taken from a man but one thing. The last of the human freedoms, to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances]] - [[Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait]] - [[Everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality, but upon the perception of reality]] - [[Everything is a composition of lower-level concepts]] - [[Everything is a learning opportunity]] - [[Everything is an experiment in life]] - [[Everything is better when you decide you don't care]] - [[Everything is cause and effect]] - [[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 done with other people]] - [[Everything worthwhile is uphill]] - [[Everything you write should feel both like a stand-alone piece, and a part of a larger library]] - [[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 it to take 100 small failures to achieve 1 big goal]] - [[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]] - [[Explain like I am 5 doesn't mean only using simpler words. It means simplifying the explanation of an idea]] - [[Explorers are risk-takers. That is how they end up succeeding. To succeed, become an explorer. Not an imitator]] - [[Exploring tools and their features is often procrastination in disguise]] - [[Exponential curves have a tendency to change people's minds... fast]] - [[Externalize, and centralize your knowledge. That's where it all begins]] - [[Extreme results come from extremely obsessed people]] - [[Failing is a way to grow. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you grow]] - [[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]] - [[Failure is proof that you are growing. Fail forward]] - [[Fall in love with the torture you're comfortable with]] - [[Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing]] - [[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]] - [[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of]] - [[Fears are like quicksand. The longer you stand in them, the harder it is to move]] - [[Feedback is a tool to influence, support, and help others grow. Use it wisely]] - [[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]] - [[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could]] - [[Finish your days satisfied with your work]] - [[First make the change easy, then make the easy change]] - [[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 clarity, calmness, and certainty when choosing your thoughts and actions]] - [[Focus on concepts, systems and processes]] - [[Focus on improving yourself, not proving yourself]] - [[Focus on now, make it better and the future will get brighter as a result]] - [[Focus on problems, they grow. Focus on solutions, you grow]] - [[Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead]] - [[Focus on the problem to solve and give it your undivided attention and effort. Produce high-quality work that is secure]] - [[Focus on the system as a whole, and not on each individual idea. Let those evolve, transform, morph, or disappear. It doesn't matter. The Knowledge Graph as a whole does]] - [[Focus on what gives meaning to your life. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it fulfills you and gives you joy]] - [[Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life]] - [[Follow the signs along the way. Pay attention to those and notice those]] - [[Follow your curiosity. It might lead you to your passion or it might not]] - [[Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now]] - [[FOMO is triggered by urgency, and FOMO isn't a good decision-making criteria]] - [[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]] - [[For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. The solution is always within reach. You just have to decide]] - [[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]] - [[Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach]] - [[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]] - [[Fortunate are those who take the first steps]] - [[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]] - [[Freedom is the destination, Indie Hacking is the way]] - [[Freeing yourself of the 9-5 requires making good use of the 5-9]] - [[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 beliefs to destiny]] - [[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]] - [[Frustration is a sign that you're about to break through, but most people let the flood of emotions consume them and quit instead]] - [[Fundamentally, controlling and channeling your attention is about feeling, thinking, and doing what YOU want versus what others want]] - [[Gambling is a tax on ignorance]] - [[Gamers know that you have to play level 1 over and over again in order to reach level 2]] - [[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]] - [[Generalists are experts in the big picture]] - [[Generalists are the winners in an age where specific knowledge is free]] - [[Generalists will be the winners of the current AI race. All things being equal, those with a wider perspective have the edge]] - [[George Bernard Shaw about life]] - [[Get busy living or get busy dying]] - [[Get comfortable asking smart people dumb questions]] - [[Get going, then get good]] - [[Get it done first. Get it right later]] - [[Get it out of your mind right away, and get back to work asap]] - [[Get the ball rolling. Create positive momentum for yourself]] - [[Get what you want and want what you get]] - [[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]] - [[Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow]] - [[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 notes are those you want to go back to in the future]] - [[Good software takes ten years]] - [[Good systems prevent chaos. Great systems turn chaos into opportunities]] - [[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]] - [[Great developers are becoming editors and reviewers instead of writers]] - [[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]] - [[Habits first, systems second]] - [[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 is something that multiplies when it divides]] - [[Happiness is your reality minus your expectations]] - [[Happiness isn't something you postpone for the future. It's something you design for the present]] - [[Happiness should come from within, not from where we are, who we are with or what we have]] - [[Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life]] - [[Hard work includes hard thinking]] - [[Hard work is a talent because hard work means that you keep going, you keep fighting]] - [[Hardships are forcing functions for personal growth]] - [[Hate is a very expensive emotion]] - [[Have a why, and be relentlessly obsessed with completing small things so you don’t get overwhelmed]] - [[Have faith in your life and in your destiny]] - [[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 big and hairy goals is beneficial, as it creates a vision, brings clarity, and sheds light on the path ahead]] - [[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]] - [[Help others to be their best self and you will become your best self]] - [[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]] - [[Hoarding information without purpose will only lead to feeling overwhelmed. It won't help you reach your goals]] - [[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]] - [[Hope is being able to see the light despite all 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 do you expect to be able to ask questions to your knowledge base if you don't have one. How do you expect AI to write using your own style if you have nothing to feed it]] - [[How little we know of what there is to know]] - [[How to know you are doing something meaningful]] - [[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 believe that personal knowledge management is self-care on a fundamental level]] - [[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 do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget]] - [[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 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 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 think AI introduces a new kind of thinking. It reveals what actually requires thinking]] - [[I don't trust my brain for long term information storage and retrieval. I also think better when I write. Short term memory is too constrained]] - [[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 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 fall off my own wagon regularly]] - [[I go through dozens of notebooks every year - Richard Branson]] - [[I hate writing, I love having written]] - [[I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value]] - [[I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library]] - [[I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values, and follow my own moral compass, then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own]] - [[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 have the possibility to do it, possibilities are endless, and moving towards more freedom is a necessity]] - [[I hope to learn as much as I share]] - [[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 need to write down my thoughts in order to get clear about how I think about them. Writing enables deep thinking]] - [[I never lose. I either with or learn]] - [[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 shut up and wrote twenty-three more]] - [[I think once therefore I think twice]] - [[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 use journaling as a tool to clarify my thinking and goals. The paper is like a photography darkroom for my mind]] - [[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 view infoproducts and writing as first steps into the community I want to bring value to. But not as a sustainable activity. Too much income risk and variability]] - [[I want AI companies to pay me rent for all the space and time they're using in my brain]] - [[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 wouldn't want a library full of books I have read already. I want mine to always be full of new things to explore and enjoy]] - [[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means]] - [[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'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb]] - [[I'm tired of falling asleep. I want to fall awake]] - [[I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened]] - [[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 really viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic]] - [[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]] - [[Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters]] - [[Ideas are cheap. The difference between a great work and an idea is the effort to make it real]] - [[Ideas are fragile. You need a quick way to capture those. You don't want to have to think about where information needs to go, or where to look for it. Having a capture system removes that friction]] - [[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen]] - [[Ideas are part of a whole. They come and go, but the whole system evolves over time]] - [[Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread]] - [[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 a note clarifies your thought processes or improves your mood, and never gets looked at again, it was worth making]] - [[If a task doesn’t really matter, forget about it. Focus your energy on meaningful and impactful work]] - [[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 go back in time and change my story, I won't be myself anymore. I'd lose myself, and I don't want that]] - [[If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses]] - [[If I must fall, may it be from a high place]] - [[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 needs to be done, go do it now]] - [[If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try]] - [[If it's not actionable, it's not a problem. It's a circumstance]] - [[If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less]] - [[If life must not be taken too seriously. Then so neither must death]] - [[If one cannot describe an idea in simple terms, then they do not really understand it]] - [[If one's different, one's bound to be lonely]] - [[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 they don't value my time, they don't deserve my attention]] - [[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 writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading]] - [[If you accept conventional wisdom from people living conventional lives, can you expect to be anything but conventional]] - [[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 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 feeling stuck, set a timer to get into flow and do some deep work. No notifications, no social media, no interruptions. Just you, your discipline, and your creativity It works every time]] - [[If you are getting jealous of others, you are not working hard enough]] - [[If you are insecure, guess what. The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think]] - [[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 believe success is inevitable, it will be]] - [[If you can always live in the present, you will be happy. You can only live in the present, not in the past nor in the future]] - [[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 decide, then answer is no]] - [[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 can't measure it, you can't improve it]] - [[If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting]] - [[If you cannot explain why you believe what you believe, then it isn’t your belief, it’s someone else’s]] - [[If you care about money or power, stay close to AI, because for the foreseeable future this will be the big source of change in both]] - [[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 achieve your dreams but have actually tried, you will die in a much better position than all those who never pursued those]] - [[If you don't capture your ideas, they vanish]] - [[If you don't conquer yourself, you'll be conquered by yourself]] - [[If you don't control what you choose to consume, you lose control over your thoughts]] - [[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 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 what your goals and priorities are, there's no way you can allocate your time intelligently]] - [[If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else]] - [[If you don’t know where you need to put, store or file something, then you’re building an information graveyard]] - [[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 start, you can't make progress]] - [[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 ever feel overwhelmed, go to open spaces]] - [[If you fail and stop, you have lost momentum. If you fail forward, you are gaining momentum]] - [[If you fail to capture ideas, they might fade into oblivion and be lost forever]] - [[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 feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come]] - [[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 had to pick one key core thing about the web’s architecture, it had to be universality]] - [[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us]] - [[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 plan, then distraction turns into procrastination. You know what you're giving up]] - [[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 always done it that way, it is probably wrong]] - [[If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities]] - [[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 let your AI agents use skills you have not read, it's exactly like running unknown programs as root, but with potentially much worse risks]] - [[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 never go to production, production can't go down]] - [[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 progress, then develop a bias for action]] - [[If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net]] - [[If you want to be rewarded, be irreplaceable]] - [[If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself]] - [[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 fix a broken system, you have to pull money OUT, not put more money IN. If you put more money IN, the system interprets it as a reward and uses the money to become even more broken]] - [[If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders]] - [[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things]] - [[If you want to make money, reverse engineer why you spend money]] - [[If you want to make progress, then limit your options]] - [[If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone]] - [[If you want to take control of your priorities, use a calendar and not a to-do list]] - [[If you want to think for yourself, you can’t have someone always whispering in your ear. If you want space to think, you need quiet and calm, not a bunch of people throwing out new ideas]] - [[If you want to write, then just write]] - [[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 write 3 notes a day, you could have more than 1K within a year]] - [[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 do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood]] - [[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 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 serious about growth, think about processes]] - [[If you're short on time, invest cash. If you're short on cash, invest time]] - [[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 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]] - [[Ignorance is not a solvable problem. It is rather an inescapable part of the human condition]] - [[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]] - [[Impostor syndrome is what happens when even I can’t believe just how amazing I am]] - [[Impostor syndrome is when you know you're not stupid, but can't help but think you're stupid]] - [[In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible]] - [[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 software systems, low coupling is a quality. In knowledge systems, high coupling is a quality. You want high interconnectivity between notes. Knowledge and learnings are reinforced by relevant connections]] - [[In something new, there is always a level of opacity that only time can dissipate]] - [[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 the era of algorithmic distraction, the ability to maintain a single thread of thought for four hours is a superpower. It is the only way to solve hard problems]] - [[In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity]] - [[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]] - [[Incompetence in the limit is indistinguishable from sabotage]] - [[Information is data that changes us]] - [[Information is data that changes us. Knowledge is information that empowers us. Wisdom is knowledge that propels us forward]] - [[Information is everywhere. Insight is what you keep]] - [[Information is just data, knowledge is how you use the data]] - [[Information is not a property of things in the world, but part of our interpretation]] - [[Information is not knowledge]] - [[Innovation happens at the speed of trust]] - [[Innovation is rebellion until it succeeds]] - [[Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results]] - [[Inspiration follows action, not the other way around. Momentum creates inspiration]] - [[Instead of asking people what they think about something. Ask them how they feel about it]] - [[Instead of indiscriminately consuming content and doom scrolling, PKM teaches and enables you to be selective, focusing mainly on information that serves your objectives]] - [[Instead of waiting (sometimes for years) for bigger wins to happen, you can use small wins to propel you]] - [[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 isn't a collection of skills. It's the efficiency with which you acquire and deploy new skills. It's an efficiency ratio]] - [[Intelligence plus experience equals wisdom]] - [[Invest in your personal knowledge. Make it compound and see how it helps you grow. Then leverage it with AI and observe how it acts as a force multiplier for impact]] - [[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 make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it]] - [[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 by walking that the path is made]] - [[It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men]] - [[It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read]] - [[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 much easier to create a valuable Knowledge Graph when you create atomic notes]] - [[It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom]] - [[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 what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help 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 a lot easier to say all successful people got lucky than it is to admit you have no ability to delay gratification, handle rejection, or think for yourself]] - [[It's always useful to think about the end goal, but it's also useful to think about the reachable small wins]] - [[It's amazing how often the real issue isn't the ideas we have, but how we capture them, recall them, and what we do with them]] - [[It's an order of magnitude less work to create a lie than to refute one]] - [[It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude]] - [[It's better to start small and be consistent than to start big and burn out quickly]] - [[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 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 hard to build momentum if you keep dividing your attention]] - [[It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows]] - [[It's never too late to explore a new path in life, to start a new journey]] - [[It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice]] - [[It's normal to be scared about exchanging a dream for everything you have already obtained and achieved so far]] - [[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 not because a client is authenticated (i.e., you know who they are) that they can do anything they fancy]] - [[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are]] - [[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 not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters]] - [[It's now or never. If it's not now, it means later. But later could turn into never. Fight against the natural tendency to do stuff 'later']] - [[It's okay and even recommended to revisit and change your goals along the way]] - [[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 okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit]] - [[It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path]] - [[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 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 rare for knowledge to live in isolation. That's why connecting ideas is key for Personal Knowledge Management]] - [[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 ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future]] - [[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting]] - [[It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change 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]] - [[Je t'envoie l'éternité dans une minute, l'infini dans un mot, tout mon coeur]] - [[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]] - [[Journaling is the most powerful habit in my life]] - [[Journaling is the perfect entry point into growing a Knowledge Management practice]] - [[Judge ideas, not how or where they come from]] - [[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 choose a tool and stick with it. Only then will you be productive]] - [[Just do it, because no one else will do it for you]] - [[Just do it. Just don't quit]] - [[Just get going with something. Movement creates awareness and activity. So just pick something you feel like doing]] - [[Just learn to get stuff done]] - [[Just like code functions, notes should be short, easy to understand and standing on their own]] - [[Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you]] - [[Keep constant guard over your perceptions]] - [[Key decisions are rare in a lifetime. Most decisions make a few ripples at worst (the long tail), while the key decisions are like tsunamis]] - [[Kindness is delivered, empathy is lived]] - [[Kindness is invincible]] - [[Know your category, and you’ll know where readers 'fit' you in their own minds]] - [[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 is not enough. We must apply. Being willing is not enough. We must do]] - [[Knowing what to do is only half the battle]] - [[Knowing what you want is a competitive advantage]] - [[Knowledge and wisdom can be information]] - [[Knowledge compounds over time. But only if you have a system]] - [[Knowledge doesn't just grow linearly. It compounds through connections]] - [[Knowledge grows when it gets shared]] - [[Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes]] - [[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 composed of an infinite number of infinite ladders]] - [[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]] - [[Knowledge Management goes way beyond productivity. It's a means to learn more about yourself, and your dreams, develop your potential, and live the life you were meant to live]] - [[Knowledge Management is one of the enablers to help us go from Information Overwhelm to Wisdom]] - [[Knowledge Management isn't a hobby. It's a practice]] - [[Knowledge Management isn't a separate activity. It should be part of everything you do, fully integrated into your life]] - [[Knowledge Management isn't about adding more work to your day. It's about transforming how you handle the work you already do]] - [[Knowledge Management needs to be a first class citizen in your work and life if you want it to have an impact]] - [[Knowledge without creation is procrastination]] - [[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 at the last responsible time]] - [[Learn from people above you, and teach people below you]] - [[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning]] - [[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]] - [[Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest]] - [[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]] - [[Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing]] - [[Leave Things BETTER than you found them]] - [[Les êtres sensibles ne sont pas des êtres sensés]] - [[Les grands esprits sont des sceptiques, les convictions sont des prisons]] - [[Less is more when it comes to reading non-fiction. I took many weeks to read The Personal MBA, and learned a lot more than I would have if I just rushed through the content]] - [[Less is more when it comes to tools]] - [[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]] - [[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity]] - [[Let opportunities do their thing give yourself a chance]] - [[Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out]] - [[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards]] - [[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 a marathon, not a sprint]] - [[Life is a wonderful rollercoaster. Without the downs, we wouldn't be able to fully appreciate the ups]] - [[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 about wanting what you get, not getting what you want]] - [[Life is addition up until age 40, and after that it's subtraction]] - [[Life is hard, but we make it much harder]] - [[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 chocolates. You never know what you gonna get]] - [[Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule]] - [[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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind]] - [[Life is simply what our feelings do to us]] - [[Life is ten percent what happens to you, and ninety percent how you respond to it]] - [[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises]] - [[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 should not be a journey to the grave]] - [[Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown, even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to]] - [[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]] - [[Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect]] - [[Limitations are self-imposed]] - [[Linking ideas together helps us remember and (re)use those]] - [[Listen to your heart, go where it guides you and you shall be happy]] - [[Listen to your soul. You're the only one able to decipher it. If you don't, you risk living someone else's life]] - [[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]] - [[Literature is the only art where somebody says, I read that once. You don’t say that about your favorite album]] - [[Live a life true to yourself and worry less about what others expect of you]] - [[Live every single day fully, so that when the time has come to leave this world, you won't have regrets]] - [[Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is]] - [[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]] - [[Look, every day is an opportunity to make better decisions, to grow and to learn]] - [[Love doesn't need to be discussed. It has its own voice and speaks for itself]] - [[Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation]] - [[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own]] - [[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 a word people who are lazy use to describe people who are hustling]] - [[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 a dent in the world make it a better place transform something into something better]] - [[Make it a habit to learn something new each and every day. Whatever it is]] - [[Make it work, make it right, make it fast. In that order]] - [[Make mistakes, just don't make them permanent]] - [[Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before]] - [[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 the most of yourself. For that is all there is of you]] - [[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 mistakes doesn't make you a failure. It's not that you're not good enough or incapable. Failure is just another word for feedback. Mistakes are literally data points, telling you what not to do]] - [[Making money is a consequence of making a difference in people's lives]] - [[Making money is not a thing that you do. It's a skill that you learn]] - [[Making money online is not that hard. The key ingredients are community, consistency, persistence, and patience]] - [[Making money online is very easy, you just need a strong head and consistent action]] - [[Making of an introvert]] - [[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]] - [[Many people see the world as full of dangers and for that reason it becomes dangerous to them]] - [[Many people who are obsessed with productivity are actually stuck in a trap of endless optimization. People seem to forget that productivity means getting things done, not just planning to]] - [[Master productivity by taking action. Master creativity by creating regularly. Master perfectionism by embracing imperfection. Experience teaches what theory cannot]] - [[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]] - [[Meaningful goals turn distraction into discovery]] - [[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]] - [[Mindless consumption is just procrastination in disguise]] - [[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 comes from taking action. Waiting doesn't help]] - [[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 often than not, better can come later]] - [[More than three people can't decide anything]] - [[More time is wasted focusing on the past than the future]] - [[More tools equal more complexity. Keep it minimal]] - [[Most errors in judgment happen when we don't know we're supposed to be exercising judgment]] - [[Most knowledge workers are drowning in information but starving for knowledge]] - [[Most notes are write-only. Created once, never read again. Smart notes are building blocks. Created once, used forever]] - [[Most of the time change isn't painful. It's our resistance to change that is painful]] - [[Most of the time you don't need more information, you need more courage]] - [[Most of what we learn about doesn't need to be memorized. Schools generally put too much emphasis on recall and so little on knowledge management, problem-solving, and creativity]] - [[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 are unable to choose their destiny, let alone fight for it]] - [[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 don't really give up on their dreams. They see the price tag then decide it's too expensive]] - [[Most people don't value their attention and their time nearly enough. They sell themselves cheaply]] - [[Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years]] - [[Most people spend the vast majority of their lives doing work they barely chose, surrounded by colleagues they didn’t select, for reasons they don’t remember, and then wonder why they feel unsatisfied]] - [[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]] - [[My problem is that my imagination won't turn off]] - [[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 confuse movement with action]] - [[Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it's meant to be, it will happen]] - [[Never give up on your dreams because your heart never will and you will forever feel a void and will regret not pursuing those and regret is far worse than failure]] - [[Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them]] - [[Never hesitate to update or remove existing notes. The world changes all the time, your knowledge evolves, and your notes only reflect your thinking at a given point in time]] - [[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]] - [[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 take a job for which you are qualified. You won’t grow]] - [[Never time to do it right. Always time to do it twice]] - [[New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become]] - [[No better way to influence generations of AIs and humans than by sharing your ideas out there]] - [[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 ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river, and he's not the same man]] - [[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 matter what they tell you, it’s always a people problem]] - [[No matter what you do, document your processes]] - [[No need for trust when everything is easy]] - [[No need to feel bad about being wrong. People are wrong most of the time. Take the best decisions based on what you know and move forward]] - [[No one can make you feel inferior without your consent]] - [[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 PKM system works for everyone]] - [[No plan for your life will survive contact with reality]] - [[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]] - [[Nobody knows what the future will hold. It's both awesome and horrible. Horrible because anything can happen. Awesome because anything can happen]] - [[Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little]] - [[Nobody said being great would be easy]] - [[Nobody wants to listen to find out. We have already concluded, we already have opinions]] - [[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]] - [[Nos envies se perdent dans nos pensées en attendant que resurgisse la liberté de nos désirs. Et nos désirs s'eveillent à la pensée de laisser libre cours à nos envies...]] - [[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]] - [[Not taking your work extremely seriously is a form of self-sabotage. You're so afraid to fail, you convince yourself failure doesn't matter. And in doing so, manifest the mediocrity you were afraid of in the first place]] - [[Note taking has to act like a pipeline to be useful]] - [[Note taking is, in a sense, the inverse of lecture delivery]] - [[Note-making is different from note-taking. But both are complementary]] - [[Note-taking and note-making are complementary. Both have value]] - [[Note-taking is a means to an end it should reduce the distance between what's in your mind and what you want to say, create, remember. Anything that adds friction should be pared down, resist the temptation to overcomplicate]] - [[Note-taking is all about capturing information from the outside world, while note-making is about expressing ourselves]] - [[Note-taking is the easy part. The hard part is organizing and linking]] - [[Note-taking is, in a sense, the inverse of lecture delivery]] - [[Notes don't make contemporary physics easier, they make it possible]] - [[Notes don't matter. Information and knowledge do]] - [[Notes only make sense as the input for something else. Either as inspiration or as ideas that you can compose to derive new creations]] - [[Notes should be short, focused, atomic. Complex ideas should be compositions reusing atomic ones]] - [[Notes without action are just pretty thoughts. Notes connected to action become leverage]] - [[Nothing changes if nothing changes]] - [[Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me]] - [[Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing]] - [[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]] - [[Obsidian is a Markdown-based operating system]] - [[Obsidian is free, blazing fast, privacy preserving, local, cross-platform, future-proof, extensible, has a huge list of plugins, and a thriving community]] - [[Oceans separates lands, not souls]] - [[On a long enough timeframe, the thinker will always outperform the hustler]] - [[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 start introducing Knowledge Management practices in your life, you will start using specific tools to capture your thoughts, ideas, inspiration, knowledge, and connect it all]] - [[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 note a day keeps the bad thoughts away]] - [[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries]] - [[One of the central challenges of creative work is the capture of images and other forms of condensed thought]] - [[One of the greatest things you can do for another human being is to lead them to a source of knowledge]] - [[One of the most important and overlooked part of PKM is how to capture ideas when you are away from the computer]] - [[One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning]] - [[One place for everything and everything in its place]] - [[Only compare yourself to yourself]] - [[Only dead fish go with the flow]] - [[Only do time blocking when it is critical to meet a deadline, given other things going on]] - [[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 the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others]] - [[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]] - [[Open loops are no less than a disease. Closing those is not just a question of productivity, but a key practice for recovering peace of mind and mental clarity]] - [[Open loops have a cumulative effect. The more there are, the worse the cognitive overload gets]] - [[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]] - [[Organizing yourself is a journey, not a destination]] - [[Originality is undetected plagiarism]] - [[Our biases, fears, and desires prevent us from seeing things as they truly are, good or bad]] - [[Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers]] - [[Our environment shapes our behavior]] - [[Our existence depends on our choices. And our choices create an infinity of different worlds]] - [[Our fear of failure often prevents us from attempting things. It feels safe not to try, but not trying is the only way you're guaranteed to fail. Don't fail in advance by not even making an attempt]] - [[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success]] - [[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 life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts]] - [[Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger]] - [[Our perceptions make up our reality. But it's up to us to change those, and see things in a different light]] - [[Our performance depends on our ability to recharge and recover]] - [[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 every detail doesn’t lead to better quality, it just paralyzes your progress]] - [[Overthinking is a symptom of keeping too much information in your brain]] - [[Overthinking kills your happiness]] - [[Overwhelm is a mindset issue]] - [[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional]] - [[Pain is information]] - [[Pain plus reflection equals progress]] - [[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 just as happy as they make up their minds to be]] - [[People are scared of achieving their dreams because they believe they don't deserve to, or fear not being able to. Their beliefs and fears hold them back]] - [[People are so afraid of being inefficient that they constantly switch tools Ironically, switching tools frequently is what disrupts your workflow and makes you inefficient]] - [[People are troubled not by things but by their judgments about things]] - [[People aren't dismissing your ideas; they just prioritize those presented with confidence, clarity and purpose]] - [[People buy for convenience, specificity, or both]] - [[People care way too much about status. They are stuck playing status games]] - [[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 care when you ask them to buy something. If you help them first]] - [[People don't even realize that they keep following new paths every day. Every day is an opportunity to explore, discover, learn and grow, for every single path is unique]] - [[People don't quit jobs. They quit bad cultures, bad systems and bad managers]] - [[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 I've lost in my life inspire me to live fully every single day]] - [[People need to write more to think more clearly. But many think about it the other way around]] - [[People rarely admit they’re wrong because that would force them to change what they do and that’s painful]] - [[People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things]] - [[People think that you have to be inspired to write. Actually, you have to write to be inspired]] - [[People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t]] - [[People think they know what they should write, and what will resonate. But all they have are assumptions]] - [[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]] - [[People, not methodologies or tools, make projects successful]] - [[Perception is not passive. There is no perception without action. All perceptions are action driven]] - [[Perfect is the enemy of good]] - [[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away]] - [[Perfection is an illusion]] - [[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 subconscious overvalues the unimportant subtasks in order to postpone task completion and hence the verification of our performance]] - [[Perfectionism is when the subscouscious overvalues the unimportant subtasks in order to postpone task completion and hence the verification of our performance]] - [[Perfectionism keeps us from making mistakes but also from making progress]] - [[Periodically revisit your notes. This not only refreshes your memory but also provides opportunities to refine, combine, or otherwise evolve your understanding]] - [[Persistence beats timing. Execution beats luck. Not immediately, but eventually]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) channels thoughts, ideas and knowledge into more meaningful action]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management enables memorizing and forgetting, at scale]] - [[Personal knowledge management gets a lot easier and more effective when you realize the key is to consistently capture, organize, review, and apply]] - [[Personal knowledge management is less about one-time organization and more about regularly curating and revisiting your notes]] - [[Personal knowledge management isn't about storing information, it's about making it actionable]] - [[Personal principles enable converting values into action]] - [[Personality is how you seem. Character is how you are]] - [[Perspective is the art of observing the world from outside of yourself]] - [[Pessimists are right, but optimists get rich]] - [[Pessimists vs Optimists vs Engineers]] - [[Physical clutter is not just an eyesore. It's also a collection of remaining work, and decisions to be made. Those weigh on our minds when we are around]] - [[Pick a low hanging fruit to get the ball rolling and make progress from there, building on your success]] - [[Pick one notes app, and keep it for long enough to reap the benefits]] - [[PKM enables having conversations with yourself through time. And that's powerful]] - [[PKM requires thinking carefully about what you need to retain, and where. Many things deserve to be captured, but few actually need to be memorized. And the balance is not that easy to find]] - [[Plan in decades, live in moments]] - [[Plans for the future need to be reviewed regularly because we change all the time]] - [[Pobody's nerfect]] - [[Point of view is worth 80 IQ points]] - [[Poor people spend their money and save what’s left. Rich people save their money and spend what’s left]] - [[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]] - [[Power is not taken, it is received]] - [[Powerful emotions compel people to be genuine and real. They engage people with the world around them]] - [[Practice makes perfect]] - [[Practicing in public is what separates aspiring writers from professional ones]] - [[Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it]] - [[Prepare today for what you want tomorrow]] - [[Prepare yourself for tomorrow's job market, not today's. Start by identifying and understanding the market trends]] - [[Primary emotions are basic and inviolable, just like the primary colors]] - [[Principles are higher than techniques. Principles produce techniques in an instant]] - [[Principles are recipes for success]] - [[Prior knowledge makes it easier to learn, understand, and memorize new information. You can find make analogies, draw parallels, reuse techniques you already know, and take shortcuts. The more you know, the easier it gets]] - [[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]] - [[Product ideas are easy. Features have the drawback of being bound to reality. An unfortunate characteristic]] - [[Productivity thrives on simplicity]] - [[Productivity ultimately boils down to learning how to generate enough dopamine at the right places at the right time]] - [[Programming isn't about what you know. It's about what you can figure out]] - [[Progress and knowledge show no fear]] - [[Progress doesn't need to be spectacular. All that matters is that it moves the needle forward, even a tiny bit]] - [[Progress is the engine of motivation]] - [[Progress only comes through action]] - [[Progress requires action. Action requires clear goals and objectives]] - [[Progressive summarization is really a mindful technique. It's a practice for fine-tuning your intuition and self-awareness]] - [[Projects aren’t rigid plans, they’re experiments. Not every project will succeed, but each one teaches you something. The purpose of project management is to learn and adapt, not to stick to a fixed plan]] - [[Promise me you'll always remember. You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think]] - [[Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate]] - [[Prompting is like playing LEGO]] - [[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]] - [[Quality is not an act, it is a habit]] - [[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]] - [[Radical optimism opens doors, and ignores those that won't open. Problems and roadblocks are opportunities. Ideas are infinite]] - [[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 everything. But remember, a book is only a book. You must learn to think for yourself]] - [[Read less, take notes, and retain more]] - [[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 deeply changes the way we perceive the world. It changes us and the way we act]] - [[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]] - [[Reading is for gaining knowledge. Notetaking is for retaining wisdom]] - [[Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude]] - [[Reading without writing misses 90% of the benefits]] - [[Reality doesn't care about abstract intentions]] - [[Reality is just an agreed upon illusion]] - [[Reasoning from first principles is a superpower]] - [[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]] - [[Refine and reduce intake of information. Select the information you curate and consume more carefully]] - [[Regret is a tax on your mind]] - [[Regrouping different functions into a single tool is a testament to the value and power of simplicity in the digital age]] - [[Relationships are like electric currents, wrong connections will give you shocks throughout your life, but the right ones will light up your life]] - [[Relentless curiosity is essential for lifelong learners. Without curiosity, there's no drive to learn, no motivation to explore. Stay curious. Always]] - [[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]] - [[Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make big choices in life]] - [[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]] - [[Repetition rewires your brain. Repeat what you want to become. This is neuroplasticity]] - [[Reputation is too small to matter until it’s to too big to change]] - [[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking around and prying with a purpose]] - [[Resilience is a forced response to distress, not another nifty workplace skill]] - [[Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work]] - [[Resolve means promising yourself you will never give up]] - [[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]] - [[Results is the name of the game]] - [[Reusing previous notes and connecting those with other ones is a key aspect of creating smart notes]] - [[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]] - [[SaaS is a medium. Expertise is the product]] - [[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]] - [[Seek inspiration from others who have been successful]] - [[Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old]] - [[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 infinitely fun, because it never ends. There is always something new to discover and learn]] - [[Self-education is the habit of the free]] - [[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]] - [[Set your goals high, and do stop from time to time to enjoy the journey and appreciate your progress. But never lose sight of the end goal]] - [[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there]] - [[Setting high level direction is far superior to specific outcomes]] - [[Setting the bar lower often enables progress and helps avoid needless stress]] - [[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]] - [[Show me an experimenter, and over the long run, I'll show you a future winner]] - [[Show me the incentives, and I’ll show you the outcome]] - [[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 doesn't mean easy]] - [[Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior]] - [[Simple scales. Fancy fails]] - [[Simple things are the most extraordinary]] - [[Simplicity boils down to two steps. Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest]] - [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]] - [[Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity. It's the clarity of understanding]] - [[Simplicity sells, complexity fails]] - [[Since no one understands the system any more, no one can stop it]] - [[Sleep is the best meditation]] - [[Slow down. Give your mind and body the rest they need. Before they force you to do it]] - [[Slow is smooth and smooth is fast]] - [[Small things add up]] - [[Small wins will keep you motivated, and will make it easier for you to celebrate your progress and feel proud]] - [[Smart people love making mistakes]] - [[Smart people read (a lot)]] - [[Smart people see value in all types of knowledge]] - [[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]] - [[Solve problems and you'll attract tire kickers. Highlight problems and you'll attract paying clients]] - [[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 best improvements are through deletion not addition]] - [[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 of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go]] - [[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, others are slow arcs]] - [[Some teams keep you on your toes, but others keep you on your feet]] - [[Someone who loves to read will forever be free]] - [[Something cannot emerge from nothing]] - [[Sometimes having a simple idea that your company can execute perfectly is better than having a grandiose idea that your company can't]] - [[Sometimes in life, things change and we don't have time to adapt and get used to those]] - [[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]] - [[Sometimes, when you're different, you feel like a mistake. While in reality, difference is a gift, an advantage, real wealth]] - [[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known]] - [[Speech is power. Speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]] - [[Stand often in the company of dreamers. They tickle your common sense and believe you can achieve things which are impossible]] - [[Start every day with a new hope, leave bad memories behind, and have faith for a better tomorrow]] - [[Start from wherever you are. That's fine, you're not late]] - [[Start now]] - [[Start with writing. The rest will follow. Clear writing means clear thinking, which makes speaking clearly much easier]] - [[Startup is an execution game]] - [[Status derives value from some source of scarcity]] - [[Status games only flatter your ego. They don't lead anywhere meaningful]] - [[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 looking back on your life journey. You’ve been there, done all that; so now it’s time to move ahead and look forward to better things]] - [[Stop starting over. Start building on what you know]] - [[Stop thinking, analyzing, planning. Start doing]] - [[Stop trying to find the way. Make your own]] - [[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]] - [[Stress doesn't come from hard work. It comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over]] - [[Strive for simplicity and accept that your Knowledge base and Knowledge management system will forever be flawed]] - [[Structured data is the way forward for PKM. With time and experience, having solid ways to increase consistency (not burden!!) is key to creating a maintainable and usable knowledge base]] - [[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 in whatever you want to achieve is closely related to the number of cheap instant gratification pleasures you're willing to sacrifice]] - [[Success is a doing]] - [[Success is demanding but it is worth it. You have to want to succeed]] - [[Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm]] - [[Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable]] - [[Success is the lifelong experiment of discovering what makes you feel most alive]] - [[Success is the result of a solid system]] - [[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]] - [[Sustained productivity requires sane limits. Protect your time and energy. Don't try to be busy all the time, it's an anti-pattern]] - [[Systems are much more important than tools, especially for note taking]] - [[Tags and metadata enable finding the information you need more easily when you need it. It’s critical to maximize usefulness and leverage]] - [[Tags are no better or worse than folders, links or MOCs. They're complementary]] - [[Take imperfect action today, rather than dream about perfect action tomorrow]] - [[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 own decisions, don't let others or inaction decide for you]] - [[Take your work more seriously. Take yourself less seriously]] - [[Taking control of your focus also means taking control of your life. If you let others control your focus, you let them control your life as well]] - [[Taking notes frees up your mind in the moment, and enables you to organize thoughts you can leverage in the future]] - [[Taking notes is like investing in your future self]] - [[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 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]] - [[Talent is the intensity of your desire (to achieve something)]] - [[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]] - [[Technical simplicity and robust principles will serve you better than complex systems]] - [[Technology is neither good nor bad. Nor is it neutral]] - [[Technology vs age]] - [[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are]] - [[Tell me, and I forget, teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and I learn]] - [[Ten commandments of War propaganda]] - [[Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts]] - [[The 'trick' to motivating a team is to do nothing that de-motivates them. Stopping trying to lead them helps]] - [[The ability to resurface your notes and ideas in the future is a key part of building a valuable PKM system]] - [[The absence of limitations is the enemy of art]] - [[The act of knowing is an act of commitment]] - [[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 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 angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory]] - [[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 benefit of PARA is the homogeneity of the system across platforms and apps. That is, having a single mental model for everything]] - [[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 products and services are a reflection of your proven, high-performing topics]] - [[The best system is one you'll actually use]] - [[The best talent has proof of work, not memorisation]] - [[The best task is the one you can skip entirely, without affecting the grander scheme of things]] - [[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 out is always through]] - [[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 you're able to express your ideas, the more clearly you think about those ideas]] - [[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 advantage of minimizing the digital tools you use is you have less to keep organized and up to date. You have fewer options about where something will go or what you will use to do a piece of work]] - [[The biggest concern for any organization should be when their most passionate people become quiet]] - [[The biggest risk is taking no risks at all]] - [[The biggest wall you have to climb is the one in your mind]] - [[The boat is safe in the port, but it's not for that that boats were built]] - [[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 broader you are, the more confusing you are. Your content needs to resonate. And to resonate, it has to be specific]] - [[The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity]] - [[The clearer my mind is, the more inspirational thinking occurs. Go to bed with a problem to solve in your head, and there's a good chance you'll wake up with at least a starting solution]] - [[The closer we get to realizing our dreams, the more our personal legend becomes our reason to live]] - [[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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn]] - [[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity]] - [[The darkest hour is the one right before dawn]] - [[The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results]] - [[The demand for AI skills is exploding while humans rapidly lose the ability to learn new ones]] - [[The devil is in the details]] - [[The difference between an archive and a system is intentionality. An archive stores. A system transforms]] - [[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 direct consequence of taking more notes is that you retain more information]] - [[The direct consequence of taking more notes is that you retain more information and knowledge. But the most important benefit is one of the second-order effects. You improve your thinking]] - [[The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline]] - [[The education system creates slaves, not free thinkers]] - [[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time]] - [[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 equation is simple. Time is money, and if your attention gets stolen away, your time is also stolen]] - [[The explanation of why a system does what it does is sometimes outside of the system]] - [[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 fear of suffering is worse than suffering]] - [[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 foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering]] - [[The fun thing when you have a mission is that you never run out of ideas. It's like a virus that you need to spread around, no matter what]] - [[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 PKM lies not in choosing between traditional methods and AI tools]] - [[The future of work is remote, asynchronous and part time. More respectful of the human nature, better aligned with our personal lives, less wasteful and more respectful of the environment]] - [[The future of work is spending more time with family]] - [[The goal is not to read faster and go through as many books as you can, but rather to retain more of what you read through active reading. You read slower but get a lot more out of it]] - [[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 a personal organization system is to organize everything that you do for your life and work]] - [[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 greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray]] - [[The greatest breakthroughs are missed because they look like really hard work]] - [[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 hardest part of trying to share what works online is that the people who most need to internalize it are the people least likely to recognize it]] - [[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 human mind operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts]] - [[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire]] - [[The hunt for happiness is open every morning]] - [[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 inexperienced act like you can buy success without failure. They’re a package deal]] - [[The Internet favors what’s fast]] - [[The internet is a perception game]] - [[The journey to achieving your biggest dreams begins with a single, manageable step]] - [[The joy of leadership comes from seeing others achieve more than they thought they were capable of]] - [[The kernel, the soul, let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism]] - [[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 key to surviving the day is not positivity, it's acceptance. Accepting that not all days are good and happy]] - [[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 the time horizon, and the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[The longer the time horizon, the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[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 of knowledge, the man of opinion, the man of experience, will never find the truth. For the mind must be very simple to find truth, and simplicity is not achieved through learning]] - [[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 measure of wisdom is silence]] - [[The minute you convince yourself you could have done better without a margin of safety is exactly when you need it most]] - [[The mirror reflects a perfect image because it does not think]] - [[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 stop viewing success as a destination is the moment you’ll start enjoying the present]] - [[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 complex an organization system is, the hardest it gets to file and locate information]] - [[The more experience you have with note-taking, note-taking and PKM, and the leaner your toolkit is]] - [[The more I think about it, the more I feel like success will always remain out of reach]] - [[The more notes and links you have in your knowledge base, the more possible path you can create. The number of paths grows exponentially as you add more notes and links]] - [[The more notes and links you have in your knowledge base, the more possible paths you can create. The number of paths grows exponentially as you add more notes and links]] - [[The more notes you have, the more pathways there are through your knowledge base]] - [[The more one judges, the less one loves]] - [[The more open loops we have, the more our attention will be taken away, and the more context switches our brain will have to perform. Each one of those is a tax we keep paying for as long as those open loops remain]] - [[The more options you have, the less likely you’ll choose any of them, and the less satisfied you'll be with your choice]] - [[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 unexpected the style, in the context of your category, the more likely you are to stand out]] - [[The more we look back, wondering what might have been, the less we are living for today]] - [[The more you have on your mind, the less headspace you have to think and work]] - [[The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them]] - [[The more you read, the smarter you get. Especially when you capture and connect the ideas, knowledge, and wisdom]] - [[The more you share, the faster you learn]] - [[The more you spin the wheel, the more chances you have to win]] - [[The more you sweat, the less you bleed]] - [[The more you try to outsource thinking, The less thinking you actually do]] - [[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart]] - [[The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist]] - [[The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood]] - [[The most dangerous addiction is the approval of people who don't matter]] - [[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 important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school]] - [[The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed]] - [[The most powerful life hack is to be kind to people]] - [[The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller]] - [[The most precious thing is a book. It's always there, it's faithful. You can read and re-read it. It's a marvelous partner. You can open and look at it whenever. It never leaves us]] - [[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 most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect]] - [[The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship upon them]] - [[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 real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life]] - [[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 time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else]] - [[The only way to find out if it will work out, is to do it]] - [[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance]] - [[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 paradox of entrepreneurship. In order to get started, you need to hate repetition enough to take the leap. In order to win, you need to love repetition enough to never stop]] - [[The past is history, the future is a mystery]] - [[The past is no more and the future doesn't exist. Live in the present moment with the lessons you learned in the past and the dreams of your future]] - [[The past is your friend. Focus on how it helps you go from here]] - [[The past only exists in your mind]] - [[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 people who move the fastest aren't doing more work. They're just continuing to apply the right efforts to their bottlenecks faster than everyone else]] - [[The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something]] - [[The perfect plan is pointless if you never get going]] - [[The person who captures ideas consistently sees more progress than the person who relies on memory alone]] - [[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 PKM is not to build a second brain, but to empower the one you already have]] - [[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 possibility of turning dreams into reality is what makes life interesting]] - [[The power of having dreams is that they enable us to leave behind a legacy and impact others with our vision]] - [[The present holds infinity in itself]] - [[The price of productivity is creativity]] - [[The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are]] - [[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 chasing perfection is that you end up paralyzed by indecision The only work that gets done is the work you’re already good at and you avoid risks, which means you avoid growth]] - [[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 productivity bottleneck is now ideation, not creation]] - [[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 quest always starts with beginner's luck and always ends with the challenge of the conqueror]] - [[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers]] - [[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 reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries]] - [[The real challenge isn’t accessing information. It’s transforming that information into practical wisdom that serves your goals]] - [[The real dream is still being able to dream]] - [[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 right way to think about a PKM system is as an integral part of everything you do]] - [[The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making lazy look productive]] - [[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 Knowledge Management is understanding that it's, first and foremost, a practice that needs to be fully integrated in your life & work before you can reap the benefits]] - [[The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times]] - [[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 incremental success is looking for incremental lessons]] - [[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 single biggest wealth hack is living in the future]] - [[The size of your audience is directly proportional to the size of the question you're answering]] - [[The smarter you get, the smaller your group becomes]] - [[The solution to an overactive mind is adopting a writing habit]] - [[The strategies we employ for note-taking, note-making, and sense-making play a crucial role in how we store, retrieve, and utilize information]] - [[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 universe always conspires in favor of those who dream]] - [[The universe is pure chaos. It's up to us to make things happen. Setbacks are just random events]] - [[The unknown is where ideas are growing]] - [[The urgent present vs the important future]] - [[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 doesn’t need more information. It needs more people who know what to do with it]] - [[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 world needs more entrepreneurs. It needs more fighters. It needs more magic]] - [[The World Wide Web is one of the first venues where individuals can construct portrayals of themselves using information rather than consumer goods as their palette]] - [[The world's most effective knowledge workers and leaders aren't necessarily smarter than everyone else. They just have systems for capturing, organizing, and retrieving knowledge that multiply their natural abilities]] - [[The worse thing you can do is wait for it to be perfect]] - [[The worst prison in the world is having the talent and intelligence to achieve something great, but lacking the courage to go out and do it]] - [[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 easy paths that are also worthwhile]] - [[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 too many distractions in this life for quality of thought, and it's quality of thought, not quantity, that counts]] - [[There are too many things we consider and treat as rules in our lives, while they're often much closer to guidelines or preconceived ideas]] - [[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 are two types of writers today. Those who use data to inform and improve their writing, and those who fail]] - [[There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will]] - [[There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something. Committed people do what interested people won’t]] - [[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 love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look]] - [[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 passion to be found playing small, and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living]] - [[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 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 people above and below on the success ladder. At the top they're literally in space. And there's a long tail of people at rock bottom]] - [[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 a difference between giving up and letting go]] - [[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 point in making a good choice poorly]] - [[There’s no real way to achieve the kind of relaxed control I’m promising if you keep things only in your head]] - [[There's no right time, just time, and what you choose to do with it. Don't wait for the perfect moment, make it count]] - [[There's nothing more practical than a good theory]] - [[There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes]] - [[There's something lovely about doing things slowly and at my own pace]] - [[There's something to be said about slowing down, whether that is for the environment, relationships, or business]] - [[There's zero point in climbing a mountain if you forget to enjoy the view]] - [[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 in terms of concepts, processes, and systems]] - [[Think like you're rich. Work like you're poor]] - [[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy]] - [[Think of you life as an experiment]] - [[Think slow. Act fast]] - [[Thinking clearly begins with writing. We need to externalize thoughts to make sense of them]] - [[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!]] - [[Thoughts create reality. PKM improves thinking. Hence, PKM changes the world for the best]] - [[Thoughts we accept become our reality]] - [[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind]] - [[Time and patience are the strongest warriors]] - [[Time is the only currency you spend, without ever knowing your balance. Use it wisely]] - [[Time is what we want most, but what we use worst]] - [[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 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 be happy you must eliminate two things. The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past]] - [[To bring order into our lives we must identify problematic patterns that don't work, and replace those with new ones that do]] - [[To compare yourself means to hurt yourself]] - [[To curate is to create]] - [[To develop a complete mind, study the science of art. And study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else]] - [[To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable]] - [[To do your best work, focus on having fun]] - [[To earn the respect of others, first learn to respect your own self]] - [[To find good ideas, ship many ideas]] - [[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 yourself is the beginning of wisdom]] - [[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 learn something, make it painful to not learn]] - [[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 measure yourself, compare where you are versus where you started]] - [[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 satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better]] - [[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 understand is to forgive]] - [[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 the youngest you'll ever be again]] - [[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]] - [[Tools are fun and necessary. But only as long as they are really useful. Nothing wrong with trying out many different ones, as healthy a hobby as any, I suppose. Just let yourself land on the ones that become part of your routine]] - [[Tools are secondary. They're just enablers]] - [[Tools to enhance understanding]] - [[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]] - [[Treat ideas like cattle, not like pets]] - [[Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket]] - [[Treating ideas like cattle, rather than pets, offers an interesting perspective on managing our knowledge]] - [[True creativity is the art of clarity]] - [[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]] - [[Turn your writing into a data mining machine]] - [[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]] - [[Typewriters and printing presses take away some, but your robot would deprive us of all]] - [[Uncertainty is the refuge of hope]] - [[Unclear goals, not a busy schedule, are what really hold you back]] - [[Understand that PKM will require time and efforts, and set realistic expectations]] - [[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]] - [[Unless your goal is to have fun, avoid hoarding information without purpose. Be intentional]] - [[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]] - [[Usage becomes habit, habit becomes infrastructure]] - [[Use Atomic notes to better organize information, as well as enable creating more useful and more meaningful links]] - [[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 about what you do, not what you say. How you act determines who you are]] - [[Values are the why, beliefs are the how]] - [[Verba volant, scripta manent]] - [[Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it]] - [[Victory belongs to the most tenacious]] - [[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent]] - [[Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering]] - [[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]] - [[Water dripping day by day wears the hardest rock away]] - [[We accept truth only because we have rejected it in the depth of our soul]] - [[We all fear losing what we have, but that fear disappears when we realize that we can rebuild and regain whatever we had before, if we really want it]] - [[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 all see the world as we'd like the things to happen, and not as they actually happen. We look at the world through a distorted lens]] - [[We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master]] - [[We are all stardust wandering through space and time]] - [[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 like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content]] - [[We are more than the sum of our intentions]] - [[We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral. We have already climbed many steps]] - [[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 shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think]] - [[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 become addicted to things we love]] - [[We become what we think about]] - [[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 rarely tell others what we really think about them. Not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves]] - [[We can't escape the prison that our mind sometimes feels like. But by learning and exploring our creativity, we can make it as big as we want and never see its limits]] - [[We can't learn without pain]] - [[We cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt]] - [[We discover what to do next by doing and delivering the current thing]] - [[We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience]] - [[We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it. Purpose keeps you fresh!]] - [[We don't grow when things are easy. We grow when we face challenges]] - [[We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fail to the level of our training]] - [[We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are]] - [[We don't take notes about the literature. We take notes about our understanding of the literature]] - [[We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget]] - [[We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same]] - [[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 always be ready to face the surprises life puts on our path. We need to welcome and embrace those with gratitude]] - [[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 a fourth place,  beyond home, work, and social spaces. A place where our thoughts can exist outside our heads, where we can interact with them, play with them, and develop them into something greater]] - [[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 externalize our thinking to feel less overwhelmed and think more deeply]] - [[We need to understand how our minds work so we can work our minds better]] - [[We never notice the treasures that are right in front of us because we are unable to believe it]] - [[We never read the same book twice. Because we’ve changed. The perceptions about the book have changed. What we’re going through in this very moment is new and different]] - [[We often refrain from sharing what we learn because we don't feel we're ready. But actually the sooner we share, the more what we share is relevant to others at the same learning stage]] - [[We pretend to be strong because we are weak]] - [[We punish ourselves for what makes us different]] - [[We say peace of mind, but really what we want is peace from mind]] - [[We shape our tools thereafter our tools shape us]] - [[We should all have big and hairy goals. Even if those are too ambitious and impossible to achieve, working towards such goals will often help us realize our full potential. We will also be surprised by how far we can go]] - [[We suffer more often in imagination than in reality]] - [[We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run]] - [[We tend to shut down and push others away when we feel pain]] - [[We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen]] - [[We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective]] - [[We're always fighting in some way. Either against entropy, or inertia]] - [[We’re here to make a dent in the universe]] - [[We’re kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goals]] - [[Well-being is realised by small steps, but is truly no small thing]] - [[What can you learn. What can you teach. Those are two powerful questions worth pondering]] - [[What comes around goes around]] - [[What feels like failure today is often part of success tomorrow]] - [[What gets measured gets managed]] - [[What got you here won't get you there]] - [[What happens once cannot happen again. What happens twice is bound to happen a third time]] - [[What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun]] - [[What in your life is calling you]] - [[What is a front-end developer's favorite sport]] - [[What is bad luck. Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity. They are all opinions]] - [[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow]] - [[What keeps me writing is the idea that what I write can change what my readers think and, by extension, change the world]] - [[What limits your choice is understanding. A wise spirit always has fewer choices than a foolish one]] - [[What looks like skill is often persistent revision]] - [[What looks like success is often just patience]] - [[What looks like talent is often careful preparation]] - [[What matters is not the tools, but what you achieve with those]] - [[What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing]] - [[What others think about you is not important. What you think about yourself means everything]] - [[What progress, you ask, have I made. 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 do is more important than how you do it]] - [[What you really want is clear, on the other side of fear]] - [[What you seek is seeking you]] - [[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 is needed, I can handle it]] - [[Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality]] - [[Whatever you are feeling right now, it's okay to just sit with it for a while. Whether it's joy, sadness, indifference, anger. It's what makes us human, and that is enough]] - [[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 a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure]] - [[When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail]] - [[When anger arises, think of the consequences]] - [[When building habits, choose consistency over content]] - [[When defining your priorities, focus on alignment first, and impact second]] - [[When failing isn’t an option, you never do, because you never stop]] - [[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 in doubt, use brute force]] - [[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 one thing evolves, everything around it evolves as well]] - [[When people are placed in positions slightly above what they except, they are apt to excel]] - [[When people say your product is too expensive what they really mean is your product isn’t valuable enough]] - [[When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen]] - [[When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love]] - [[When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive]] - [[When teachers stop learning, so do students]] - [[When the bar is set lower and when you focus on making meaningful progress, step by step, you get to focus more of your attention on how to move forward more effectively. This encourages experimentation and fosters creativity]] - [[When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off]] - [[When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen]] - [[When there is no time for rest, the goal can only be burnout]] - [[When there's no way back, all you can do is focus on the best way to move forward]] - [[When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting]] - [[When two roads lead to ruin, wisdom builds a third way]] - [[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty]] - [[When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves]] - [[When we don't bring clarity into our life, we are like leaves blowing in the wind. We land, like it or not, wherever the wind takes us]] - [[When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his mental process]] - [[When we think we know enough, we stop learning. That's when we stop growing]] - [[When we try to become better and improve everything around us improves as well]] - [[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 are learning, note-taking helps capturing what matters. When you are expressing yourself, note-making is the way]] - [[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 catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born]] - [[When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change]] - [[When you choose what to watch or read, you are choosing your future thoughts and perspectives. Consume what you’d like to become]] - [[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 discover a new subject or new information in a subject you know about, if you have no prior knowledge that you can associate this new information, it's much harder to learn, understand and memorize]] - [[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. Try to just be. Do not let what you fear define the present that you hope to be in when you go do what you're afraid of]] - [[When you feel like you’re procrastinating, break down tasks into micro-steps Too simple to stall, too quick to quit. Each tick is a win, and a series of ticks is a day well spent]] - [[When you focus on the good, the good becomes better]] - [[When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition]] - [[When you lose your control of your attention, you lose your time, your most precious asset]] - [[When you lose your temper, you lose your power]] - [[When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be]] - [[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on]] - [[When you really want something, the universe conspires in your favor]] - [[When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore. It is a decision]] - [[When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely]] - [[When you sign up for a marathon, you sign up for pain]] - [[When you simplify a complex idea, its influence expands It doesn’t just make it more understandable. It extends its reach and impact]] - [[When you tag information, don't look for the one perfect tag. Instead, add as many relevant keywords as you can. Those are pathways for you to stumble upon this note later]] - [[When you take notes and keep those isolated, they can never reach their full potential]] - [[When you truly don't care what anyone else thinks of you, you have reached a dangerously awesome level of freedom]] - [[When you write a note, consider it as a draft forever. Never hesitate to update or remove existing notes]] - [[When you're writing a story, you're creating a movie inside the reader's brain]] - [[When you're young, you dream fearlessly, ambitiously. But as you age, doubts creep in and you stop believing that you can actually achieve your dreams]] - [[Whenever a group of people have an unmet drive, a market will form to satisfy it]] - [[Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it]] - [[Whenever you feel like things are not going the way you want them to. Think about the infinite number of small and negligible things that always go according to your plans, but that you are too busy to even notice]] - [[Whenever you find yourself thinking you're late to a new technological trend, remember that Walt Disney thought he was late to animation in 1923]] - [[Where attention goes, energy flows. Where intention goes, energy flows]] - [[Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge. Where is the knowledge we have lost in information]] - [[Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective]] - [[Where there's money to be saved, there's money to be made]] - [[Where you should be writing today isn’t necessarily where you should be writing tomorrow. The digital landscape is always changing]] - [[Where your fear is, there your task is]] - [[Where your heart lies, your treasure lies. Listen to it and follow it. Enjoy the journey]] - [[Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right]] - [[Which games you play is more important than how well you play them]] - [[While negative emotions are good teachers, we can't change if our thinking and energy are impaired by too many negative emotions]] - [[While perfect consistency is a waste of time, having some does have value]] - [[While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do]] - [[While we can dream about a future where our data, information and knowledge flow freely, without artificial barriers, integration problems or issues, it will remain a utopia for years to come]] - [[Who is not being served by you playing small]] - [[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]] - [[Why waste your time and energy trying to “use your head” to store everything you need to know when you can outsource the job of remembering to technology]] - [[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]] - [[Wisdom starts with words]] - [[Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness]] - [[Wise people know it's impossible to be perfect. Best is to be less imperfect]] - [[Wishes don't create change. Decisions do]] - [[With a Personal Knowledge Management System, you always start from somewhere]] - [[With a proper PKM system in place, you can avoid information overload, declutter your mind, gain clarity, and grow]] - [[With AI, developers go from authors and musicians to editors and orchestrators. Syntax fades away and systems thinking shines]] - [[With all else being equal, take the road most documented]] - [[With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy]] - [[With great research come great opportunities]] - [[With templates, the focus shifts from how to capture information to the information itself, leading to clearer thoughts and more effective learning]] - [[Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest]] - [[Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless]] - [[Women dominate the book-buying market. If you only show your work to other guy friends, only have it edited by guys, and don't write something that's equally appealing to women, you will probably fail]] - [[Wonder is the door that invites new insights]] - [[Words don't make a difference. Actions do]] - [[Words matter. Your words (what you say) and style (how you say it). are your most cherished (and, yet, undervalued) assets]] - [[Work 4 days a week for a while and start trying things out. Explore your creativity. Give that idea a try. Start that project. Make the first step. Taste freedom]] - [[Work as little as possible to feel fulfilled and to live a happy life]] - [[Work in silence. Success will be your noise]] - [[Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you]] - [[Work on one thing at a time until finished]] - [[Work to live. Don't live to work]] - [[Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you]] - [[Working hard is only okay if it doesn't prevent you from living your best life]] - [[Working hard makes you money. Working smart sets you free]] - [[Working less than you possibly could is not laziness]] - [[Worry is a misuse of imagination. Learn to use your imagination wisely. Focus your energy on what you want to see in your life]] - [[Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace]] - [[Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe]] - [[Worrying is suffering twice]] - [[Write digital notes when you want your mind to move faster. Write with pen and paper when you want your mind to move slower]] - [[Write ideas, not documents]] - [[Write more. It has more to do with thinking better than writing better, although the latter is a side-effect of the former]] - [[Write out 3-5 lever-moving tasks per day]] - [[Write today. Edit tomorrow]] - [[Write what you know]] - [[Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere]] - [[Write your thoughts down. No complexity will help if your thoughts remain only inside your head]] - [[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 brings clarity]] - [[Writing code is the easiest part of being a software developer]] - [[Writing enables us to practice reasoning]] - [[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. Rewriting is the key to improved thinking]] - [[Writing is a way to express and purify thoughts]] - [[Writing is about changing the ideas of others, not sharing your own ideas. Nobody cares about what you think]] - [[Writing is an insurance against ephemerality]] - [[Writing is formalized thinking]] - [[Writing is nature's way of telling us how sloppy our thinking is]] - [[Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards]] - [[Writing is photography with a pen]] - [[Writing is projecting your intent forward. It’s manifesting a thought into the reality of others]] - [[Writing is the process by which we discover we don’t really know what we are talking about]] - [[Writing is understanding]] - [[Writing makes you smarter because it easier to lie to yourself with thoughts in your mind than words on a page]] - [[Writing online requires an unrelenting commitment to consistency]] - [[Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is yet to come. All you can focus on is today]] - [[You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire]] - [[You actually don't want to be a millionaire. You want freedom]] - [[You always have a choice. To be a victim or to take responsibility for your life and show appreciation for everything you have. You get to choose how to live your life]] - [[You always have the possibility to achieve your dreams. If you believe it, if you have enough willpower, are on the right mindset, then the sky is the limit]] - [[You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here]] - [[You are a story that you tell yourself]] - [[You are confined only by the walls you build yourself]] - [[You are good enough. Actually, you're probably overqualified, but let's start the day off humble]] - [[You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream]] - [[You are not the hero. Your customers are the heroes. You are only their guide]] - [[You are the master of your attitude. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude]] - [[You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather]] - [[You are what you do, not what you say you'll do]] - [[You are what you focus on most of the time]] - [[You are what you practice. Your identity isn't fixed. You can become a better or worse person at any time. It's up to you. Make the right choices]] - [[You are what you repeatedly do]] - [[You aren't rewarded for hard work]] - [[You aren't where you want to be because you aren't as skilled as you think you are]] - [[You become unstoppable if you actually stop relying on other people to get things done]] - [[You become unstoppable when you realize that you can do it alone]] - [[You become what you believe]] - [[You become what you give your attention to]] - [[You can always trade time for features, but you can never trade features for time]] - [[You can be anything but you can’t be everything]] - [[You can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself]] - [[You can buy people’s skills, but not their hearts. You can buy people’s time, but not their loyalty. The most valuable things must be earned]] - [[You can choose to look at the world as a victim or as a hero. It's a choice]] - [[You can do anything but not everything]] - [[You can have anything you want, but not everything]] - [[You can just create things. Take notes and publish them. Record stuff and put it online. Connect ideas together and share them with the world. You don’t need anyone’s permission. You can just create things]] - [[You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing]] - [[You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding]] - [[You can tell a lot about something by how the people who built it describe it]] - [[You can’t compete with someone who is having fun]] - [[You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards]] - [[You can't easily move forward with a rain cloud from the past following you around]] - [[You can't fail, because failure is just more information, to be captured and used as fuel for your journey]] - [[You can't force yourself to think any faster. Speeding up your thinking process often results in poor decisions that create future problems]] - [[You can't get rich without enriching others]] - [[You can’t grow until you admit you were wrong]] - [[You can't organize anything if you don't know what you're organizing for]] - [[You can't put your arms around a memory, so hug someone you love today]] - [[You can't scale inconsistency. You can't build a sustainable creator business on hoping inspiration strikes]] - [[You can't solve a problem you're not willing to have]] - [[You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf]] - [[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with]] - [[You cannot kill me in a way that matters]] - [[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time]] - [[You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you]] - [[You don’t control the mountain, only the climb]] - [[You don’t feel lonely when you are alone, you feel lonely when you don’t give yourself the care you need]] - [[You don't find a solution without having a problem first]] - [[You don't find what you're passionate about. You create it. You build it. You invest energy into a goal. You become great at something. You stick with it whether you feel like it or not]] - [[You don't find your true self, you just create it day after day. And either you do it subconsciously or intentionally]] - [[You don’t get 1000 fans at once. You get one fan a thousand times]] - [[You don't get to decide what wins. Your only decision is will you do what it takes to win]] - [[You don't get what you deserve. You get what you decide you deserve. But you gotta decide]] - [[You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time]] - [[You don't have to be exceptional. You just have to be you]] - [[You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great]] - [[You don't have to believe everything you think]] - [[You don't have to know every step, just ask yourself. What is my next best step]] - [[You don't have to wait until you're an expert (whatever that means) to teach what you know]] - [[You don’t imagine something first and then write it down. It’s through the act of writing that ideas make themselves known]] - [[You don't know what you don't measure]] - [[You don’t know what you don’t measure]] - [[You don't like reading because you haven't found the right book yet]] - [[You don't need a better note-taking system, you need a practice]] - [[You don't need another note-taking app. You need a knowledge system]] - [[You don’t need mentors, you need action]] - [[You don't need permission to start writing]] - [[You don't need permission. You need passion and a plan]] - [[You don't need to be an expert to teach what you know]] - [[You don’t need to do more. You need to do what matters most, on your terms]] - [[You don’t need to do more. You need to do what matters most. Now. On your terms]] - [[You don’t rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems]] - [[You don't rise to the occasion. You rise to your level of preparation]] - [[You don't smile because you are happy, you become happy because you smile]] - [[You don't suck in time management, you just don't know how valuable it is]] - [[You don't take a photograph, you make it]] - [[You don't want respect, you want self-respect]] - [[You either die a hypocrite or live long enough to see yourself become a hypocrite]] - [[You either die a hypocrite or live long enough to see yourself become one]] - [[You fall to the level of your systems and habits]] - [[You feel bad because you know what you’re supposed to do and you aren’t doing it]] - [[You get what you focus on]] - [[You have to be able to trust your investments of knowledge the same way you trust your investments of money]] - [[You have to earn complexity]] - [[You have to keep at it with a lot of curiosity for a long, long time]] - [[You have to learn something to understand how little you know]] - [[You have to trust in something. Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life]] - [[You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you]] - [[You learn a lot by being silent]] - [[You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough]] - [[You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them]] - [[You miss a hundred percent of the shots that you don't take]] - [[You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible]] - [[You need a productivity system. But not just any system. One that works for YOU]] - [[You need a system that works with your brain, not against it]] - [[You need power, only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, love is enough to get everything done]] - [[You need to be serious to become believable]] - [[You need to think small to win big]] - [[You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice]] - [[You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are]] - [[You only got one life. No replays]] - [[You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough]] - [[You only live once. You might as well be a badass]] - [[You only lose what you cling to]] - [[You only need to impress two people. Yourself at age 5 and yourself at age 85]] - [[You only need to know the direction, not the destination. The direction is enough to make the next choice]] - [[You owe it to the world to put your work out there]] - [[You really have to be intolerant with intolerance]] - [[You regain control of your attention when you have a goal. A real goal. One that you can't stop thinking about. One that turns anything you read, watch, or listen to into ideas you can apply toward that goal]] - [[You should always know WHY you capture some piece of information and add it to your PKM system]] - [[You show what your values really are by the opportunities you turn down]] - [[You solve beginner problems with more. You solve advanced problems with less]] - [[You want the notes you take to live on, and join your knowledge base forever]] - [[You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous]] - [[You want to be the only person who does what you do]] - [[You waste years of your life when you keep thinking you have time]] - [[You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in]] - [[You were born to win. But to be a winner, ytou must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win]] - [[You will always attract what you believe you're worth]] - [[You will never be truly happy if you continuously hold onto things that make you sad]] - [[You won't act differently until you think of yourself differently. So start by taking one small action that will change your self-identity]] - [[You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer]] - [[You’ll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary]] - [[You'll never feel ready because ready isn't a feeling. It's a decision]] - [[You'll never not be afraid]] - [[You’re allowed to take breaks]] - [[You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose]] - [[You're never going to consume your way to health. Health is about removal not addition]] - [[You're never wrong to do the right thing]] - [[You're only as good as how you perform on your worst day. When everything is going well, it's easy to be successful. But when things start crashing all around you, that's when it matters most to keep your head and think long-term]] - [[Your best teacher is your last mistake]] - [[Your body hears everything your mind says]] - [[Your brain is for having ideas, not for holding them]] - [[Your brain is for having ideas, not holding them]] - [[Your brain is for having ideas, not storing them]] - [[Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges]] - [[Your character is who you are when nobody is looking]] - [[Your commitment to your wellness is part of the revolution]] - [[Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service]] - [[Your daily work, templates, checklists, reports. These can be built to last and serve you repeatedly. Think durable, not disposable]] - [[Your daily work, templates, checklists, reports. These can be built to last and serve you repeatedly. Think durable, not disposable — [[Tiago Forte]] - [[Your enemy isn't mediocrity. It's inaction]] - [[Your environment shapes who you are. The simpler your environment, the simpler your life]] - [[Your fear of embarrassing yourself is the biggest hurdle to your growth]] - [[Your first step becomes a draft for the next]] - [[Your habits will determine your future]] - [[Your knowledge base should have a simple and light folder structure (at worst). The less time you spend filing notes, the more time you have to focus on what really matters. Knowledge and links]] - [[Your life is your own project. Personal responsibility isn't blame. It's liberation]] - [[Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are]] - [[Your lips are like wine and I want to get drunk]] - [[Your magic helps overcome the tragic]] - [[Your mental health has an enormous impact on if you will be successful or not. Don't neglect it]] - [[Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them]] - [[Your mind is only as strong as your mission is clear]] - [[Your mindset is how you decide to respond to inputs]] - [[Your mission is to be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear]] - [[Your motivation is the jet fuel for the journey of change]] - [[Your normal day is someone else's dream]] - [[Your notes only reflect your knowledge and thinking at a given point in time. Each note is bound to become outdated or useless at some point]] - [[Your obvious knowledge is somebody else's miracle]] - [[Your pain is valid even though others have it worse. Your joy is beautiful even though others have it better]] - [[Your PKM system is a garden. Daily notes are the seeds, atomic notes are the plants, and your knowledge base is the flourishing ecosystem. Nurture it daily]] - [[Your success depends on the risks you take. Your survival depends on the risks you avoid]] - [[Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes]] - [[Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny]] - [[Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth]] - [[Your work will never rise past the level of your standards. Average standards create average work]] - [[Your writing can only be as good as the best stuff you’ve read]] - [[Your writing is unique, and so are you]] - [[Ziad Abdelnour]] <!-- SerializedQuery END -->