20 of the smartest things that have ever been spoken: 🧵
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact:
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.”
—Steve Jobs
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.”
—Steve Jobs
"You don't get to have a meaningful career or raise a family or leave the world a better place without stress and discomfort.
Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life."
—Susan David
Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life."
—Susan David
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
—George Bernard Shaw
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
—George Bernard Shaw
"Advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot in the moment.
Three ways this applies:
1. Saying you don't know vs. pretending you do.
2. Doing something different than everyone else.
3. Admitting you made a mistake and correcting."
—Shane Parrish
Three ways this applies:
1. Saying you don't know vs. pretending you do.
2. Doing something different than everyone else.
3. Admitting you made a mistake and correcting."
—Shane Parrish
"It's impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default."
—J.K. Rowling
—J.K. Rowling
"When we fully attend to the management of self, excellent management of all else is unavoidable."
—Dee Hock
—Dee Hock
"It's important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
That's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
—Elon Musk
That's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
—Elon Musk
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, make me feel important."
—Mary Kay Ash
—Mary Kay Ash
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it"
—W. Somerset Maugham
—W. Somerset Maugham
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard Choices, easy life."
—Jerzy Gregorek
—Jerzy Gregorek
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
—Oprah Winfrey
—Oprah Winfrey
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
—Winston S. Churchill
—Winston S. Churchill
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
—Maya Angelou
—Maya Angelou
“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
—Virginia Satir
—Virginia Satir
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
–Mark Twain
–Mark Twain
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
—Thomas Edison
—Thomas Edison
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
—Eleanor Roosevelt
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