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Favorite Quotes

COMMUNICATION

  1. If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. – Leslie Lamport

  2. I never understand anything until I have written about it. – Horace Walpole

  3. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernad Shaw

  4. There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way.

FACING CHALLENGES

  1. The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. — Gothe

  2. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl

  3. Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how. – Viktor Frankl

  4. Focus is saying NO. – Steve Jobs
    • The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word no
  5. Dont whine, dont complain, dont make excuses. You get out there and whatever your doing, do to the BEST of your ability. And no one can do more than that. – John Wooden

  6. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself. – Walter Anderson

  7. What one man can do, another can do!

  8. He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. - Pablo Picasso

  9. The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think. – Marc Andreessen

DECISION MAKING

  1. Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions. But most decisions aren’t like that – they are changeable, reversible – they’re two-way doors. If you’ve made a suboptimal Type 2 decision, you don’t have to live with the consequences for that long. You can reopen the door and go back through. Type 2 decisions can and should be made quickly by high judgment individuals or small groups. – Jeff bezos

WORK

  1. There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

  2. I start early, and I stay late, day after day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

  3. Do not let comfort slow you down.

  4. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. - Pablo Picasso

  5. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs

MISC

  1. Somewhere in the world, an unknown young person is probably starting a company now that will eventually be as big as today’s tech giants. – Sam Altman

  2. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C Clarke

  4. 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. – Steve Jobs

  5. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard

  6. 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

  7. However little television you watch, watch less. – David McCullough

  8. Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions. – Qi Liu

  9. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.

  10. Sometimes you’re just happy playing. Some people, some media, unfortunately, don’t understand that it’s okay just to play tennis and enjoy it. They always think you have to win everything, it always needs to be a success story, and if it’s not, obviously, what is the point? Maybe you have to go back and think, Why have I started playing tennis? Because I just like it. It’s actually sort of a dream hobby that became somewhat of a job. Some people just don’t get that, ever. – Federer