Quotes

• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. – Yeats, The Second Coming

• Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. – Teller

• Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting. – Aimee Mann

• We’re even wrong about which mistakes we’re making. – Carl Winfeld

• I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time. – Charlie Munger

• When you don’t feel good enough about doing something, doing the thing will make you feel good.

• I start early and I stay late, day after day after day. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success. – Lionel Messi

• You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. – Lionel Messi

• The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. – Von Goethe

• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Von Goethe

• Everything is hard before it is easy – Thomas Fuller

• Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. – Von Goethe

• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Von Goethe

• Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare. – Angela Duckworth

• Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another. – Angela Duckworth

• No whining. No complaining. No excuses. – Angela Duckworth

• 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

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

• Focusing is about saying no. – Steve Jobs

• Don’t fear moving slowly. Fear standing still. – Chinese Proverb

• Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money. – Nat Friedman

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

• If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. – Linus Pauling

• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. – Bill Gates

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

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

• I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results. – Alexandr Wang

• When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic, but that steeled my resolve.

• Get the important things right. – N. P. Calderwood

• It’s easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot. – Gurwinder Bhogal