Quotes

You’re not the first one trying to figure this out!

So many smart people lived before us, each of them uncovered another piece of truth that can help us be better.

We're all standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before us.

Trying to collect some wisdom as I stumble through this life.

“It’s a daunting task to get your shit together.”
— Joe Rogan

“Between stimulus and response there is space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— It wasn't V. Frenkel

“People, Ideas, and Things, In that Order”
— John Boyd

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
— Ken Blanchard

“Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
— John Watson

“Uncertainty is certain”

“Hard choices, easy life.
Easy choices, hard life.”
— Jerzy Gregorek

“There’s progression you don’t see and feel.
There’s a starting point, and with time and focus.
As long as you reevaluate and reassess, and constantly objectively look at what you’re doing, and then pursue it with passion and focus, you get better at things.”
— Joe Rogan

“When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
— Steve Jobs

“Bad companies, are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”
— Andy Grove

“I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.”
— Richard Feynman

“Fear is a magnifying glass. It makes you think your obstacles are bigger than they are.”
— Thibaut (@Kpaxs)

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
— Albert Einstein

“It is better to be wrong than to be vague.”
— Freeman Dyson

“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.”
— John Rawls

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
— Gustave Flaubert

“Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction.”
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Precision beats power, and timing beats speed.”
— Conor McGregor

“Reality is one of the few words that means nothing without quotation marks”
— Vladimir Nabokov

“Before you begin, think as if you are a lazy person. Assume the competition will work harder. Your only chance is a better strategy.
After you begin, work as if you are a dumb person. Assume the competition is smarter and more talented. Your only chance”
— James Clear

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
— Albert Einstein

“We are living in space-age times with people who are living with Stone Age minds.”
— Daryl Davis

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal