• “Remember that the size of your life is proportional to how uncomfortable you are willing to be.”
• No hurry, no pause
• Give Excuses or Results. Both is impossible.
• Confidence is a feedback loop.
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH. — Steve Jobs
• “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ― Robert Heinlein
• “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius
• Paradise is not a place. It’s a condition. That’s my philosophy. And I think that was one of the things that happened on Galapagos. People found out that paradise is not a place. One thing is very important. Wherever you go, if you go out of the society, wherever you go you bring yourself. And if you are the problem, you can go wherever you want. You will have problems. Yeah. Because you are the problems. And you take these problems with you. ― The Galapagos Affair, movie, 2013
• If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough. ― Mario Andretti
• To become a champion, fight one more round. ― James Corbett
• Fear is excitement without breath.
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ― Zig Ziglar
• The standard pace is for chumps ― Kimo Williams to Derek Sivers
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ― Mark Twain
• May the bridges I burn light the way
• Life finds a way ― Jurassic Parc
• Make most of you actions to serve your future self. ― Derek Sivers
• “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ― Mark Twain
• The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. ― Tara Ploughman
• “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” ― Albert Einstein
• “Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.” ― Sun Tzu
• Politicians fully expect that the lazy and ill-informed won’t bother to vote. These citizens pay taxes, which support the political life of the few who don’t quit the system. ― Seth Godin
• Derren was born in 1971 in Croydon. It was a difficult birth - his mother was in Devon at the time. ― Derren Brown
• The most complained about show in the history of television. He still receives several letters of complaint a week from psychics and Christians. He is sensitive to everyone’s objections but knows at least the latter group will forgive him. ― Derren Brown
• Millions of people might have initially downloaded music because it was free, but they then suddenly discovered something even better. Free music was unencumbered. ― Kevin Kelly
• Architecture is a stage for the theater of everyday life. ― Matthew Frederick
• “True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
• “What’s the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is not taught, but burdened by the sheer volume, and it’s better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 9.4”
• “So, what should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I’ve trained for, for this my discipline!” “a man who has been at constant feud with misfortunes acquires a skin calloused by suffering.” This man, he says, fights all the way to the ground and never gives up.”
• “How you do anything is how you do everything. It’s true. How you handle today is how you’ll handle every day. How you handle this minute is how you’ll handle every minute.” — Ryan Holliday, Daily Stoic
• “I don’t complain about the lack of time . . . what little I have will go far enough. Today—this day—will achieve what no tomorrow will fail to speak about. I will lay siege to the gods and shake up the world.” —SENECA, MEDEA, 423–425”
• “If it’s not in JIRA, it doesn’t exist” — Jeff Morris, Designing A Production Process: Part 2
• “Fail, but fail at great ventures!” — Adam Gilad, 21 Laws of Boldness
• “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast”
• Remember: in an argument, I am right if I know that the answer is obvious, I am probably wrong if I try to win
• “Oh, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” — Bob Dylan
• When we reveal more, we have less to hide. — Brad Blanton
• We run around in the world while running around in our minds trying to live up to standards we imagine others are requiring of us, while we starve for the nourishment that comes from commonplace experience. We end up trying to eat the menu instead of the meal. Menus are nutritionally without value and taste like shit no matter what pretty pictures decorate their surface. — Brad Blanton
• “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” — Elon Musk
• “Your entire life runs on the software in your head—why wouldn’t you obsess over optimizing it?” — Wait but Why
• “freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies” — Will Durant, The Lessons of History
• “imitation is opposed to innovation” — Will Durant, The Lessons of History
• “The men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.” — Will Durant, The Lessons of History
• “the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable.” — Will Durant, The Lessons of History
• “we, who repeatedly enlarge our instrumentalities without improving our purposes.” (as humans, we boost tech for the same purposes as ever, instead of changing the purposes) — Will Durant, The Lessons of History
• “Don’t let pain stand in the way of progress.” (understand how to manage it to produce progress) — Ray Dalio
• “The modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• “I like it when ridiculous things are taken dead seriously” — Brendon Chung
(Brendon Chung on tutorials) It’s very elegant, trusting design. (On level design) One of the best practices I learned was to play the level with the HUD off – no compass, no objective marker, nothing. If the level is still readable and playable, then you’re set. (On soundtrack) It’s a mix of “what would complement this world’s tone” and “what would be funny.” Not funny as in ha-ha funny, but (hopefully) funny in the “I wasn’t really expecting that, but I like it and I’m not sure why” way.
• Start with good people, make something customers actually want, and spend as little money as possible. — Paul Graham
• The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
— Howace Walpole
• Learning about investing from books is like learning about sex from romance novels. — Charlie Munger
• Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. — Tim Ferriss
• “A formidable person is one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way. Formidable is close to confident, except that someone could be confident and mistaken. Formidable is roughly justifiably confident.” — Paul Graham