Quote Vault
A collection of quotes that have stuck with me.
I have to understand the world, you see.
If you burn money, people call you crazy. If you burn time, they call you busy. We treat money as valuable because it's quantifiable and time as disposable because it's not.
An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. If you're not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop having them.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living.
When you're having fun, you're learning at the edge of your capability to learn. If you're not having fun…you're not getting anything new, you're not learning. If it's anxiety inducing, it's beyond your capability.
At the extreme optimism and pessimism are the same thing — because if you are extremely pessimistic there's nothing you can do, and if you're extremely optimistic there's nothing you need to do.
Sleep is the cousin of death.
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.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Sheep don't vomit up the grass to show the shepherds how much they've eaten; instead, they digest the food internally and produce wool and milk externally.
The highest form which civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
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.
The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
How happy are you? It's your quality of life, minus envy.
There are two kinds of people: Those who think they can, and those who think they can't, and they're both right.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
What's the best antidote to the discomfort of life?…You might say…comfort... But a better antidote is something like an adventure to excellence…that's a far better antidote to suffering than the mere absence of suffering.
The pursuit of improvement is a courageous act in a world where most people avoid friction at all costs.
You can do what you will, but cannot will what you will.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.