The Man in the Arena

From A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms S1 E4

I do not know why tragedy so oft follows after honorable men, but when I find myself without the answers, the answer is always “more glory.”

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From Shane Parrish email newsletter

Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are.

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From A Servant to Servants

He says the best way out is always through.

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Has turned into a more popular phrase: The only way out is through ^q1i9qa

From Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book Airman’s Odyssey

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

From Politics and the English Language by George Orwell:

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

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Steve Jobs on taste:

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.

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From Mastery, The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard:

To be a learner, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool… It’s possible that one of the reasons you got on the path of mastery was to look good. But to learn something new of any significance, you have to be willing to look foolish… If you’re always thinking about appearances, you can never attain the state of concentration that’s necessary for effective learning and top performance.

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