273 unique quotes that I’ve saved over the years

For the last 8 to 10 years, I’ve kept a list of the best quotes I’ve seen, heard, or read. Providing little value sitting in my notes app, its time to share them with the world:

1. Only the dead see the end of war. Plato
2. We were born in darkness, you are summer children. — Oh, my sweet summer child,” Old Nan said quietly, “what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods
3. Good helps others without concern for themselves. Smart helps others while also helping themselves. Evil harms others while helping themselves. Stupid harms others while also harming themselves. Balajis
4. We live in a power law universe. Worth trying a lot of things and assuming the one or two big wins will make up for all the losses
5. Re-reading something great is a better choice than reading new rubbish. Tren Griffin
6. You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous. Naval
7. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde.
8. The best way to have a good relationship is to deserve a good relationship.
9. Soak it all In, it’s a game you can’t win enjoy the ride
10. Never buy a depreciating asset. If it drives, flies, or floats… lease it. – the rock.
11. Loose lips sink ships.
12. We are the universe experiencing itself. Alan watts
13. We became self aware only to realize this story is not about us. Kuzgesagt
14. Money is the gamification of life. Tim Ferriss
15. The best way to predict the future is to invent it
16. Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. Chesterson
17. Beware of people and their little fiefdoms
18. “Everyday you have a choice to make. You can pick it up and actually play guitar, or you can theorize and talk about it, read and think about it. The way to get better is to put the damn thing in your hands and bang on it till you get a sound that comes out of it that sounds good. I’m not sure what to make of all this nonsense talk about tone and pedals and this that and the other thing. Its your practice time, you decide.”
19. “I have this new theory where if you have to ask someone else if you should take something potentially harmful to your body, the answer is already no. That decision has to be your own, and it has to be a well educated decision, because people like bodybuilding for a few years, and they take steroids and they’ll be like ‘I don’t actually like bodybuilding.’ Then they’ll quit bodybuilding, and their body is still fucked up from the juice or whatever they took in the meantime. “So that decision, you shouldn’t ask anybody that. You should just know, and you should be fking dedicated to wanting to do it. So no, you shouldn’t if you’re asking me that.” Chris Bumstead, Mr. Olympia sharing his thoughts on steroid use.
20. It’s nice to be able to put yourself in an environment where you can completely accept all the unconscious stuff that comes to you from the inner workings of your mind. Block yourself off to where you can control it all, take it down, that’s where true creativity comes form. — Bob Dylan
21. “Its not too late unless you are dead.”
22. My happiness comes from rewards that were very difficult to achieve. Joe Rogan
23. Whats it all worth, if it’s painless? Wiz Khalifa
24. The race is long, and in the end, it’s with yourself.
25. The only thing holding you back is yourself
26. You wont be successful if you aren’t interested in what you do all day. – Charlie Munger
27. “Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.” Andy Benoid
28. You will not find toughness in a comfortable environment. David Goggins.
29. “Get off your ass and go sell something.” Mark Cuban
30. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
31. Roll the dice. If youre going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. Bukowski
32. “How much time should i spend practicing guitar? — answer: if you have to ask, don’t bother.”
33. Some persons we see under no remarkable circumstances but whom, for some reason or another, we never forget. – Richard Henry Dana Jr.
34. “Stevie, most important thing, the better you get, the harder you work. You can’t say “well i got it made I got enough”. Dont do that. – Albert King, to Stevie Ray Vaughan during a guitar session.
35. Fortune favors the bold
36. Some opportunities only come once. Seize them.
37. I’ve already had one hell of a fun journey, so I’m ready to go when its time. Lex Fridman
38. If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan. Terence Mckenna
39. 80% of the money, best romantic partners, and everything good in life will go to the 20% of people who deserve them most.
40. Fame will not fix your problems. If anything, fame will magnify your insecurities and exaggerate your fears. – Tim Ferriss.
41. I ask not for lighter burden, but broader shoulders.
42. Rest at the end, not in the middle
43. I don’t want to be a product of my environment, i want my environment to be a product of me – Jack Nicholson, the departed
44. “Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it” – Mike Tyson
45. Develop your communication skills because once you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are.
46. We are all building castles in the sand soon to be erased by time.
47. If you don’t make time for your wellness, your body will make time for illness.
48. Founders are great at searching for a repeatable and scalable business model. -Steve Blank.
49. Don’t overplay your hand.
50. Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.
51. “I don’t need another lover hanging around trying to make me change”.
52. “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”. Bob Dylan
53. I’m not an expert but I try to really know what the experts think and keep up to date as the experts change their mind. – Tim Urban, talking about AI.
54. Entertainment and distraction are the enemy of creativity and learning.
55. Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. -Mark Matteson
56. You can’t get advice on what you should do with your life. As much as you want people to agree and to be around you supporting your dreams, its not going to be like that all the time. You gotta do it alone. – Will Smith
57. The way of relationships will get you further.
58. Life’s mostly just wasting time – Townes Van Zandt
59. We don’t cancel shows. We do the show and if things go wrong, that’s just the way it is. – Jerry Seinfeld
60. Discomfort is your friend – Joe Rogan
61. It takes a long time to become young – Pablo Picasso
62. First, last, and always
63. We’ve come a long way but we’re a long way from being done – Buddy Guy
64. I thank the lord for letting me stay around a little longer – Buddy Guy
65. There are two ways to sell: Overcome objections, figure out what’s holding folks back, talk about the positives, or find people who need what you’re selling more than you need their money, talk about the negatives, and let them sell themselves. (#2 is better)
66. Seest thou a man diligent in business? He will stand before kings.
67. You can say a lot of things about me but you cant say that i dont take a risk and put it all out on the table.
68. You might as well go for an endeavor and fail at something you think you might not be able to do. Take the risk of failing. What if you are able to do it? You would never know. Expose yourself to failure.
69. Older people want to know how it does what it does, younger people just want to know what it can do. – Steve Jobs
70. The really important thing in life is to really appreciate it because we only get to do this once and its not for a long time. – Jay Moriarty
71. “No good movie is long enough and no bad movie is short enough”
72. ‘You might as well go for an endeavor and fail at something you think you might not be able to do. Take the risk of failing. What if you are able to do it? You would never know. Expose yourself to failure.’ – Scott Kelly astronaut
73. Ideas are what could happen, engineering is about making things happen.
74. “Its not that i’m so smart its just that i’ve stuck with problems longer” -albert einstein
75. “Persistence is 90% of it.” – pro blogger
76. Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned
77. Business is hard at the beginning, but rich at the end. Long struggle, long grind, long fight. Start early so you have time to reap the reward.
78. Enjoy being young while you still are. It doesn’t last forever. – My friend Alex Verner
79. On critics: they’re entitled not to like us, and we’re entitled not to have anything to do with them if we don’t want to. – John Lennon
80. Agree with thine adversary quickly. – Jesus
81. The lord giveth, the lord taketh. – Bible
82. The ability to do a lot with a little – important in learning guitar as well as in life
83. Death twitches my ear – “live”, he says, “i am coming”.
84. Its not enough to be right, you have to be effective
85. A ship is always safe in port, but that’s not what ships are for.
86. You can only lose if you quit.
87. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
88. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” “The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school.” – John F. Kennedy, 1962
89. Don’t wait for tomorrow, don’t wish one (single) day away. – buddy guy
90. I must create a system or be defined by another mans. – william blake
91. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed. – henry ford
92. My favorite conspiracy theory is that everything is gonna be ok.
93. Work sucks, i know. – blink 182
94. In a world where you can be anything, be kind.
95. Everything will kill you so choose something fun.
96. If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, i don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry. – Satoshi Nakamoto
97. “If you didn’t bring it with you, you ain’t gonna find it here.”
98. Try to attack my goals like any real man should – with a persistence (absent of attachment), full well knowing they may or may not come to fruition, yet absent of any attachment. And if there’s a way to achieve it in this universe, determined (hell bent) to find it.
99. It ain’t easy, it ain’t free, but it is a grand adventure! (Quora commenter on learning the guitar)
100. Try my best to accept the way it is because this may be the best it ever gets. I don’t wanna be 35 and look back and go that was it. I will not appreciate this as much as I will looking back on it. – John Mayer
101. The main reason people fail to accomplish as much as they could – in poker and in life – is that they don’t play their best game.
102. “Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven.”
103. Write daily. I can write daily. And believe it or not its more possible than I initially thought
104. Do or do not, there is no try – yoda
105. You just have to grind. That is literally all you have to do.
106. “A little excess fear is exactly what evolutionary principles would predict…’the cost of us getting killed even once is higher than the cost of responding to a hundred false alarms.'” ~Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape That Understood the Universe
107. “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.” — Bruce Lee
108. “Every next level of your life will demand a different you.” — Leonardo DiCaprio
109. (in life)You can do anything you want but you cant do everything you want. Choose wisely
110. Show me your friends and I can show you the future
111. Most things aren’t new, they’re just new to you.
112. All things are difficult before they are easy
113. If you have everything under control you aren’t moving fast enough.
114. “When you put your mind to something you will find a quicker way to get there than anybody – nobody will be able to beat you”.
115. The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing – Walt Disney
116. When work is no longer productive, read. When reading is no longer productive, sleep
117. All of human endeavor is just killing time – jerry seinfeld
118. The hard part is usually finding the data – Larry Ellison
119. Inspiration is for amateurs. The pros just show up and get to work. – Chuck Close
120. Get it while you can
121. “It is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed”. – Aldous Huxley
122. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
123. “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” —Immanuel Kant
124. Waste money don’t waste time.
125. If you really want to succeed, double your rate of failure.
126. “The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.” ― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
127. “Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?” she asked. “Don’t you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?” “Wouldn’t it be great if it did?” I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.” ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
128. “to live life is to have desires”
129. Take care of the man’s job first. – Coach T
130. It’s no longer a career ladder, it’s a jungle gym.
131. Every big win i’ve ever had has come from reaching out and connecting with people. – Jordan Harbinger
132. I couldn’t dream it any better – Zion Williamson
133. Choose your team wisely. Eagles don’t fly with pigeons.
134. Successful investing is having everyone agree with you in the future.
135. “Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge.”
136. “Nobody knows the way. Try to figure it out. Forget school and experts. Figure it out yourself.”
137. “It is very dangerous to have a plan B because you are cutting yourself off from the chance of really succeeding. Most people have a plan B because they are afraid of failing. But failing is OK. you have to fail in order to climb that ladder. But we all fail. Winners will fail and get up. Losers will stay up (and never fail)
138. “Work your ass off and tell the world about it”
139. “Do good things and tell people about them.”
140. “You stupid bitch, you know what’s wrong with your life!”
141. “The best part about creating technology is seeing what the world does with it” – Google Earth
142. You are going to die. This will all be over one day. Leave it all on the table, no stone un-turned.
143. A bad plan is better than no plan at all.
144. If you act like you know what you’re doing everybody thinks that you do. – Joe Walsh
145. “I just realized that she knew everything I knew, more actually, but that it was coming out of a woman’s head” – John Lennon, on his wife Yoko
146. Tell people the secrets how not to use your business, then more people will use your business. Gary V
147. When you love what you have you have everything you need.
148. “The price of progress in civilization is paid in forfeiting happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.”
149. Success is found in the pursuit.
150. At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for.” – Marcus Aurealious
151. “do you want to be a loser, or do you NOT want to be a loser?”
152. Do the simple things first
153. Discipline = Freedom. – Jocko Willink
154. Bitches gon ride with who they thinks a winner. – Wiz Khalifa
155. “AI began with an ancient wish to forge the gods.” – Pamela Mccormick
156. It only takes one set of footprints for the world to follow.
157. “Like every startup, this company started with one person in a 10 foot by 10 foot room, with one machine.”
158. You want to be a writer? Well, write!
159. “We’re not pretending to be God, we are God; God is pretending to be us.”
160. Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
161. “You gotta grind. that’s where a lot of comics fuck up. they do it like once a week and they take a few weeks off, and then they come back and do it again. and they’re like how do you do it all the time? I’m like, cause I know how to grind, I’m a grinder” – Joe Rogan
162. Just grind, thats literally all you gotta do.
163. Only a dead fish goes with the flow
164. “My favorite part of my work is following my curiosity around the bend, over the next ridge, into the souk, hunting facts and asking questions, going where the story seems like it might be rich.” – William Finnegan
165. “I’ve never made a record I liked” – Buddy Guy
166. “The earth snapped and popped and rippled. It was, Goldfinger thought, like driving through rocky terrain in a vehicle with no shocks, if both the vehicle and the (ground) terrain were also on a raft in high seas.” – kathryn schulz, on the earthquake to hit the PNW.
167. Ask not, “how to be successful”, but “how do you be useful?”
168. If you’re not working on yourself, you’re not working.
169. The exploration of space appears as the most hopeful feature of a dark landscape – Freeman
170. Be smarter than the problem
171. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
172. Your body is not a temple. It’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride – Anthony Bourdain
173. What a long strange trip its been
174. By justifying your problems, you recommit to them – Russel Brand.
175. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. – Mae Jemison
176. Independence is happiness. – susan b. anthony
177. If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them – jim kwik
178. Going to the mountains is going home – john muir
179. There’s never any guarantee. – a doctor I shadowed.
180. hard choices -> easy life. easy choices -> hard life.
181. We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
182. The advantage is that you can start something without expectation. – Gary Vee
183. The two greatest addictions in the world are heroin and a weekly salary.
184. “scared money never wins”
185. Slow money’s bad as gettin no money – wiz khalifa
186. “praise by name, criticize by category”
187. If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans – John Chancellor
188. “Procrastinate on resting. Put off your nap until tomorrow” – Jocko Willink
189. “When you become blindly about the audience, you win.”-Gary V
190. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you will find success.” — Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
191. You must change your life
192. These are the days
193. “I never found what i loved. But i did find what paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. And I love that. And i found what allowed me to not to have work anymore. And I also love that. – professor Stephen Heath
194. September 6, 2018. Good luck remembering today 25 years from now. Chances are you wont be able to no matter how hard you try. In the grand scheme of things, today is just another day. “Yet, today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” What you do today will certainly have an impact on your days 25 years from now. 25 years ago I was taking this class and I can very much guarantee the time I spent in those days has lead me to where I am today. My equity is measured in millions. My time is spent doing what I want to, not what I have to. If you’re reading this email, you’re on the short list of people I answer too. Of all the days in my life, some of the most defining days came during this class 25 years ago. The unwielding power you have today to shape the person you will become 25 years from wont be any more significant than it is today. The ability to separate yourself from the pack is greater now than it will be 25 years from now. Those that understand the importance of today and making today count, enjoy today and enjoy tomorrow. – Yeah sure, Im stealing from Hemmingway a bit, but he has a point. Not sure he was writing about accounting, but I guess it applies nonetheless. A long way of saying, show up to class and do your work. Also a long way of saying, don’t cement yourself in mediocrity.my Financial Accounting Teacher.
195. Go where you go and do what you do – Woody Allen
196. “Deeds and not words are what count most”
197. “Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.” – Mary Kay Ash
198. “It is not length of life but depth of life” – Emerson
199. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. – Paulo Coelho in the alchemist
200. Once you get the message, hang up the phone. – Terence McKenna
201. “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” – Wayne Gretzky
202. It’s fun being a human – Gary V
203. Remember that every old person – every adult and boss and coworker you see around you – was at one time a baby. A cute little baby pooping their pants and spitting up. Feel the compassion for everyone.
204. “People overestimate what they can get done in a day, and underestimate what they can get done in a year.”
205. “Skepticism was warranted. Most ideas don’t survive. Most ideas don’t transform themselves.” -Larry Ellison.
206. “I didn’t fail. I just learned 1000 ways to NOT make a light bulb” – Thomas Edison.
207. The right way of being is attempting to continually transcend the flawed thing that you are. The meaning of life is to be found in that pursuit. – Jordan Peterson
208. There are 7 days in a week and “some day” is not one of them.
209. If you want to be a good writer, you can’t have a mediocre life.
210. Incentives motivate behavior.
211. Do your future self a favor: Learn.
212. You can’t produce a baby in 1 month by getting 9 women pregnant.
213. A winner is just a loser that tried one more time.
214. We only get to do this thing once and its not for a long time – so enjoy it. – Jay Moriarty
215. Life is short. It’s also guaranteed to end. So take a breath and relax.
216. “Have 3 hobbies: 1 that keeps you in shape, one that keeps you creative, and one that makes you money”
217. I have enough – Kurt Vonnegut
218. “Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die”
219. “Security is mostly superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Hellen Keller
220. “You don’t move to the Bay Area because you want to pay 15000 more per rent each year over the next 5 years. You move to the Bay Area for the opportunity to make MILLIONS which dwarfs the puny amount of rent you may have paid”
221. “Get through the bull shit so that you can afford to to do the good/fun shit.”
222. These days will become the good ol days
223. All that you need is in your soul – Lynyrd Skynyrd
224. What the eyes don’t see the heart won’t reveal.
225. “You guys have all that education and book learning, but you have no common sense.”
226. “Someone’s gotta be the luckiest man in the world, I️t might as well be me.”-Mark Cuban
227. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you are fed, clothed and given medical care. The only thing lacking…is freedom.” – Dwight Eisenhower
228. “Remember: you will die one day. Live it up.”
229. “Success is not easy. Success is a mother fucker!”
230. “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
231. “Now as we grow older, we remember those happy days we spent together in a happy country. A sign of genuine friendship is that I️t does not change, come what may. Once you get to know each other, you retain your friendship and help each other for the rest of your life.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
232. “All men have fears, but the brave men put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.” – King’s Guard from Ancient Greece.
233. “p.s. I would go back to the fraternity and college in a heartbeat. Live it up.” – An alumni in college to me, as a Freshman
234. “The best revenge is living well”
235. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. —Henry Ford
236. “It starts by wanting to create a classic” – Robert Greene
237. Lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb. – Austin Kleon
238. “What is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
239. You want a seat at the table? Pull up a chair.
240. The wealthiest person I know well, who is possibly a billionaire, gave me some advice about a decade ago, and I’ll share it with you now. He said, “Asim beta [which means son in Urdu], it doesn’t matter what you do, you just have to do it very well.” A decade on, and many startups later, I couldn’t agree with him more. – Asim Qureshi on Quora.
241. “A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.” — James Allen
242. “And I say unto you, Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” — Luke 11:9
243. “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.” Proverbs 23:7
244. “Its easier to ride the wave than to create the wave.”
245. “The only way to avoid pissing people off is to do nothing important.” — Oliver Emberton
246. ”Somebody once told me the definition of hell: “On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous
247. “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” ― Robert Greene, Mastery
248. “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston S. Churchill
249. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.” — James Allen
250. “innovators must consistently act different to think different” – HBR
251. Shared knowledge is a rising tide lifting all ships
252. Science is magic that works
253. “so long as you make all those things objects of desire, you are defining yourself as lacking them”
254. “you can make any activity into a meditation, simply by doing it just to do it”
255. “its always good to be able to be exactly who you are in business and in life, as long as you realize that business is about making money.”
256. “In other parts of the world, kids–even in urban areas–play barefoot soccer from the time they can walk. In America, there are travel teams and team mothers and tournaments. It’s an organization, and until we see it as a street game, we’re [USA Soccer] never going to to get where we need to be.” Tim Howard, USA and Everton Goalie, Golden Glove – 2009 Confederation Cup Tournament ESPN Magazine, June 2009
257. Whenever you put three or more people together, politics intervene.
258. Make your life spectacular. I know I did. – Robin Williams
259. “You have to see the darkness to truly experience the light” – Jocko Willink
260. There are two necessary conditions to become an entrepreneur: absolute confidence and total ignorance. – Dan Sullivan
261. You have all the ingredients; stop trying to find a recipe, create one.
262. Only the curious have something to find. – Nickel Creek
263. You can see the stars and still not see the light.
264. “Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgement” – Paul Fussel
265. You are not like most people, you have the gift of creation. You Are one of the creators. You create the jobs you create the ideas that change the world. If you’re not pursuing your dream, somebody else doesn’t get to pursue theirs as a part of yours.
266. Say more, with fewer words.
267. Nobody likes you when you’re 23 so you might as well get a job
268. Rather than generating profit, focus on generating company – surrounding yourself with good company, people who are also driven by a goal.
269. We just really crave those good times. And it seems like every time the bad times come we just say, “at least some time in the future we’ll have another good roll”, instead of fixing the problem, which is that the whole economy is based on something volatile, and if you try to maintain control no matter what, you’re gonna lose it.
270. If we can establish human colonies on mars, and something with earth does go wrong, then at least the light of consciousness is not distinguished – Elon Musk
271. The minute you’re a little less attached than everybody else, you have incredible power over everybody, because you don’t want anything that everybody else wants so much. The minute you don’t want so much, suddenly you’re free, in a way that you can’t believe because you’re so used to being trapped in this network of needs and desires.
272. Be the most engaged and least attached. Be 100% committed, 0% needy.
273. Deeds and not words are what count most – Napoleon Hill