From How Countries Go Broke (by Ray Dalio)
If we don’t agree on how things work, we won’t be able to agree on what’s happening or what is likely to happen.
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From John Wooden:
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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From a Shane Parrish newsletter:
Ambition becomes a superpower when you stop expecting achievement to satisfy you and learn to love the pursuit itself.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman (by Ali Amdahl)
The Man In the Arena (by Theodore Roosevelt)
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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Has turned into a more popular phrase: The only way out is through ^q1i9qaHe says the best way out is always through.
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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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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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