“focusing is about saying no.”

— steve jobs

“the most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

— voltaire

“the very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. we decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.”

— jfk

“the sensitivity of a fool (these days) is worth more than the clarity of the wise”

— found on twitter

“tolerance has reached such a degree where actual intelligent people are forbidden from thinking so as not offend imbeciles”

— found on twitter

“simple can be harder than complex. you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

— steve jobs

“losers change everything but themselves, because they are too lazy to change themselves.”

— found on reddit

“a standing person wants to sit; a sitting person wants to sleep; a sleeping person wants to die.”

— tajik national proverb

“conflict is the gadfly of thought. it stirs us to observation and memory. it instigates invention. it shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.”

— john dewey

“i think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”

— charlie munger

“there is nothing like a sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that.”

— al pacino, scent of a woman, 1992

“if you think you are in competition with anyone, for anthing, you are a loser.”

— nassim taleb